Quotes About Stillness

Ya es bastante grave /que un solo hombre / o una sola mujer /contemplen distraídos el horizonte neutro

Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada, y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz. Miro

Qué espléndida laguna es el silencio.

Walker studied the small, twitching motions of his

mouth and the weight of dust heavy in his hand.

Miri forced herself to remain very still. Never run from immortals, she remembered; her favorite line from a favorite movie. Never run.

God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

Our lives are not just measured in minutes. They are measured in moments—moments when the minutes stand still.

Quiet is a think tank of the soul."17 Simply put, God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply. "Be still, and know that I am God." Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still.

The root idea of Sabbath is simple as rain falling, basic as breathing. It's that all living things—and many nonliving things too— thrive only by an ample measure of stillness.

In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply.

For a spirit that roamed restlessly, entering into every jot of the teeming life around him, stillness must have held a deep allure. If you are everything and everywhere, how restful it must seem to be no one and no where.

Stillness does not mean the elimination of disturbances as much as a different way of viewing them.

A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just about stillness end up sitting very silently up to their necks in their own shit.

Silence is so accurate

Sometimes I wish I could put my whole life on pause...just make everything stop for a while so I can figure shit out.

Even when choosing stillness we are still moving, our hearts beating, breath flowing, all our systems at work.

Nothing stays not even change, That can grow tired of it's own name; The very thought too much for it. Somewhere in air a stillness is, So far, so thin- But let it alone. Whoever we are it is not for us

During the rests - pray.

Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.

Wait a second, " Clary said."I never understand why people say that, " Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.

Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.