Quotes About Stillness

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

Don't move, Sassenach, Jamie's voice came softly, next to me. Just for a moment, mo duinne--be still. I obligingly froze, until he touched me on the shoulder. That's all right, Sassenach, he said, with a smile in his voice. It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.

Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, when both and neither surround you.

The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.

I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving

Jamie stood quite still, feeling his heart beat, watching. It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came.

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof. I

reason returned, and I calmed

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

Nothing." He pulled his

I never looked for it, gave it no name; yet I knew it always, when the gift of peace came. I stood quite still for the moment that it lasted, thinking it strange and not strange that grace should find me here, too.

Jamie stood quite still, feeling his heart beat, watching. It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life.

There is no more perfect stillness than the solitude in the heart of a snowstorm

I think I rest in the moment of not being able to rest. I rest by trying to make the moment as efficient as possible.

You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.

When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are.

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and vibrantly alive in repose.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

There's a great deal going on in the world, and nothing happening—precisely because so much is going on—

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

She sat quietly in one corner of the sofa, the end of her sari drawn modestly over her hair. Like the motionless illusion of a madly spinning top, she was staring vacantly into space.

Here I'm here- the snow falling.