Quotes About Stillness

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

I think time stands quite still and we move around in it, sometimes slowly and sometimes at a furious rate.

Ich liebe die Blumen noch mehr als die Tiere, weil sie stumm sind, nicht umherspringen können und mich nicht stören in meinen fruchtlosen manischen Gedanken.

you see and wait

is not gone, you're in the flatness of the deadlands. Time doesn't stop. You watch it move but you are still, like a painting with a Mona Lisa smile.

Don't just do something, stand there.

How does one make muddy water clear? Be still, and the water will clear in time. How does one become still? Let everything happen, and stillness appears.

If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was.

If nothing's working for you, if you feel as though you're pushing forward against the grain, the most productive and proactive thing you can do is nothing. Nature is turning you inward, to gain power through peace, rather than outward to gain power through activity.

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself. —Hermann Hesse

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.

Instead we experience reactive commentaries on thoughts and feelings. The ability to meet with stillness all that appears and disappears in awareness will gradually (very gradually) replace this deeply ingrained pattern of meeting experiences with reactive commentary.

Why do we rush about… looking for God who is here at home with us, if all we want is to be with him?

The fact that most of us experience throughout most of our lives a sense of absence or distance from God is the great illusion that we are caught up in; it is the human condition. The sense of separation from God is real, but the meeting of stillness reveals that this perceived separation does not have the last word.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

I cannot promise very much. I give you the images I know. Lie still with me and watch. We laugh and we touch. I promise you love. Time will not take that away.

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

except for the muffled strum of her fingers against metal, the house is still, quiet, but then she hears another sound, this one coming from deep within. a numbing furrow slides through her soul, sliding into her brain, a furrow that seperates one part of her heart from the other. and then it goes quiet agani.

The house is still, like the breath has been punched out of it.