Quotes About Stillness

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It was decided to leave her where she lay. She lies there

TÚ quieta, aunque el trapecio todavía se mueva y te delate.

How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.

Do nothing and there shall be nothing.

Water does nothing yet it penetrates everything. Inaction finds the road.

The old cowboy Hershel, "You know what they say about a horse bein' only afraid of two things?" Walt, "What's that?" Hershel, "Things that move and things that don't

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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

The view down the valley was wide and free; the winding river, the rounded, rolling hills. The air sparkled so that it was a positive joy to breathe . . . and over the whole place there was a stillness, a peaceful sort of feeling; it was like the feeling one has when the words of a benediction have been uttered and have died away.

Things always seem worse at night, and any sort of trouble is magnified. The darkness, the stillness, the feeling that everybody else is safely and soundly asleep give rise to feelings of desperation.

Doing nothing is exhausting. I need to rest in case we do nothing again later.

you stood still.

This is what happens to those who sit still. People who did nothing ended up with nothing lives lived on nothing furniture inside a nothing space doing nothing watching nothing being nothing. They became supernovas of nothingness that turned into black holes of pathetic shit as they sank in on themselves and disappeared from existance. People like that were not even missed.

When the mind rests open, blank, Utterly without the apprehension of appearing objects, This is the moment of the universal ground.

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of the night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible. From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half sound, a half whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of the earth and all created things in the great miracle of nature?decay and reproduction?ever beginning, never ending?the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

Silence is a great peacemaker.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

It is vey difficult to draw away from the face of God—it is like a warm fire, it is like dear sleep, it is like a great anthem, yet there is a stillness all about it, a stillness full of lights.

The couple go still. In

Being silent is like emptying the trash. When you stop tossing junk into the void—words,words,words—something important rises to the surface.

every few minutes. Harrington did it

I did absolutely nothing. Carefully.