Quotes About Stillness

He was on his side, watching me. I had not heard him turn. I never hear him. He was utterly motionless, that stillness that was his alone. I breathed, and was aware of the bare stretch of dark pillow between us. He leaned forward. Our mouths opened under each other, and the warmth of his sweetened throat poured into mine. I could not think, could not do anything but drink him in, each breath as it came, the soft movements of his lips. It was a miracle.

After I finish a phone call and before I start something else, I simply pause. When I pull into work in the morning and when I pull into my driveway in the evening, I pause.

momento en que tomaron asiento en unas sillas

positioning her chin carefully with her hands and holding them there

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments.

O soft embalmer of the still midnight

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

You have a choice, it's either you move on and be happy or stay stagnant and be lonely.

First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.

The strangeness began as a prickling of my skin. First the quail went silent, then the dove. The leaves stilled, and the breeze died, and no animals moved in the brush. There was a quality to the silence like a held breath. Like the rabbit beneath the hawk's shadow. I could feel my pulse striking my skin.

There was a quality to the silence like a held breath.

Sentí de nuevo esa sensación de puro equilibrio donde el mundo se había detenido y todo estaba a la espera.

horses were afraid of only two things: things that moved and things that didn't.

But there is nothing. A high whine of nothing, like the absence of noise when a church bell falls silent.

There is, she has found, great power to be had in silence.

The world was suddenly still; nothing was being required of me; I could stand in the quiet of my own skin.

Sitting in stillness helped me feel connected to something bigger than my own daily drama, and it gradually instilled in me a quiet confidence in my own voice and perspective.

to fix oneself in time

An angel passed. that's what the French say about a comfortable silence.