Quotes About Stillness

The magic moment is a slight quieting, a lull in being busy, a slight staring off, and a hint of calmness.

Seja como for, a ausência de ruído é o melhor sinal da proximidade de um abismo.

Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

When one is alone at night in the depths of these woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. Every leaf seems to speak.

Rilke recommended that when life became turbulent and troublesome, it was wise to stay close to one simple thing in nature.

Take refuge in your senses, open up to all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined to watch the way of rain when it falls slow and free... Draw alongside the silence of stone until its calmness can claim you.

And when we come to search for God, Let us first be robed in night, Put on the mind of morning To feel the rush of light Spread slowly inside The color and stillness Of a found world.

How can we ever know the difference we make to the soul of the earth? Where the infinite stillness of the earth meets the passion of the human eye, invisible depths strain towards the mirror of the name. In the word, the earth breaks silence.

We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us. If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will become blurred, awkward, and ugly.

I love mountains. I feel that mountains are huge contemplatives. They are there and they are in the presence up to their necks and they are still in it and with it and within it. One of the lovely ways to pray is to take your body out into the landscape and to be still in it. Your body is made out of clay, so your body is actually a miniature landscape that has got up from the earth and now walking on the normal landscape.

There is a period between each night and day when one dies for a few hours, neither dreaming nor thinking nor tossing nor hating nor loving, but dying for a little while because life progresses in just such a way.

said. "You caught your breath from

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment.

Hani bazen olur ya, o an uzad?, her andan çok daha uzun bir an oldu. Ses kesildi, hareket durdu... uzun süre öylece havada as?l? kalakald? her ÅŸey.

kind of warm silence.

It is the hour of the pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

He lay on his back like a town suspended from a steeple. He

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.

After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.

Above all, meditation is about letting the mind be as it is and knowing something about how it is in this moment. It's not about getting somewhere else, but about allowing yourself to be where you already are.

Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well.

in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.