Quotes About Stillness

There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.

When you're so undecided, it's better not to do anything, the right course of action is to take no action at all

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

It spun faster and faster then everything was still. Absolutely still.

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.

Sei still ... Sei still, es wird vorübergehn.

The Daoist way cultivates the habit of embracing experience immediately, on its own terms, and without preconceptions. Zhuangzi suggests that our mind is like the mirror in stillness and the echo in responding. It focuses on removing judgments and obstacles caused by emotions while endorsing acuity.

Your mind is like this water my friend, when it is agitated it becomes difficult to see, but if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

How still it is! Stinging into the stones, The locusts' trill.

A lonely pond in age-old stillness sleeps . . . Apart, unstirred by sound or motion . . . till Suddenly into it a lithe frog leaps. Translated by Curtis Hidden Page

Moon woke me up nine times —still just 4 a.m.

???? ?????? ??? The deep Stillness Seeping into the rocks The voice of the Cicadas

Lonely stillness— a single cicada's cry sinking into stone

Silencio la voz de la cigarra parte las rocas

An old silent pond. Into the pond a frog jumps. Splash. Silence again.

As she stared at Voltaire's still and peaceful expression – that total absence of pain – there was an inescapable feeling brewing in the darkness. Envy.

Metsä Haluan, että Hidastat Haluan, että Kaikki hidastuu; Haluan tehdä hetkestä Metsän Ja elää siinä metsässä Ikuisesti Ennen kuin menet.

A quiet that had a presence, that was a force in the air.

Als we nu eens een manier konden vinden om de tijd stil te zetten (...) Daaraan moeten we werken. Voor het geval er een gelukkig moment voorbijzweeft. Om dat moment voor eeuwig te hebben, hoeven we alleen maar met ons netje te zwaaien en het als een vlinder te vangen.

If we demand the future be free from suffering in order to be happy, we can't be happy. It is like demanding the sea be entirely still before we sail on it.

Cities try to shame us into action, as they know stillness is the preserve of the destitute, the dangerous, the dead.

I love stillness. Slowness. When nothing is happening. The blueness of the sky. Inhaling clear air. Birdsong over traffic. Lone footsteps. Spring flowers blooming with defiance. I used to think the quiet patches felt dead. Now they feel more alive. Like leaning over and listening to the earth's heartbeat.