Quotes About Stillness

A peace above all earthly dignities," she quoted. Then turned back to the room. "A still and quiet conscience.

This isn't inaction, this is simply a deep breath.

El animal primero se queda quieto y luego huye.

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

a great silence settled over the mountain.

I find myself staring at the goldfish. Bright as a penny, he swims in circles, happy to be going nowhere.

Silence has a sound

It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve.

Inaction is itself an action;

In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.

The glimmering landscape materialized slowly before him. Such stillness. He might have been the last man in the world.

After all, the clamour of the crowded public house is infinitely more welcoming than the stillness of the empty home.

In stillness there is beauty, wisdom, and the answer. That's what happens when you let go and let GOD.

Give your mouth and legs a break and shut them for once.

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

There are moments in life. And, yes, still moments in death.

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

I'm really good at not moving my legs.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place.