Quotes About Stillness

The light is satisfied only in the innermost place, where no one dwells. It is within you even deeper than you are in yourself. It is the ground of simple silence that is motionless in itself. Yet from its stillness, all things move and all things receive their life, that they may live in accordance with this reason (vernunftecliche) and be conformed to it within themselves.

nd then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they cease being who they had been

For there's nothing to say when you're dead to the world.

You were sleeping?" said Princess One. "No," I said. "Sometimes I just like to lie in the dark for hours with my eyes closed.

She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something.

loud, the last thing he should

Nothing is more useful than silence.

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

Se permanecesse imóvel por um tempo, aconteceria o inverso daquilo que ela esperava: as letras é que começariam a olhar para ela. E iriam segredar-lhe histórias. Tudo aquilo parecem desenhos, mas dentro das letras estão vozes. Ao lermos não somos o olho; somos o ouvido.

Naquele sossego, a única coisa que apetece é fazer demorar o tempo.

A melhor maneira de fugir é ficar parado.

Eu só falarei quando as coisas estiverem a dar ara o morto.

The desert is a place of desolation", the priest said. "But there are hidden springs in it. In the desert one must learn to stand still, to wait for God in emptiness. Standing still in this way is a purifying fire. One must not run from it, for it is a great gift." "A gift?" "Is it difficult for you to grasp, Aleksandr? I suppose it must be. May I tell you a story?

What I miss most in the woods," Knight said, "is somewhere in between quiet and solitude. What I miss most is stillness." To reach this pristine state, the forest hard-frozen and the animals hunkered, he had to bring himself to the brink of death.

However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

Midnight on Wednesdays

Sit in silence and the world is yours.

It is one of the great ironies of my life that only when it became virtually impossible for me to keep my body from moving would I find the peace, security, and spiritual strength to stand in one place. I couldn't be still until I could—literally—no longer keep still.

To enjoy happiness, therefore, all our mind need do is to cease all activity, returning calmly to its natural state of inactive being, as it does daily in deep sleep.

Waiting on God is hard when you are dispirited by illness. But part of waiting on God, learning to be passive in a way creative for your inner life, is not a question of thinking about God, but of growing in stillness. It has to do with prayer, and with music or from the simple contemplation of the world about you.

You think that you are an iconoclast, but you're not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

I can hear beer cans softly pattering down on the pavement, then nothing.

Only by practicing stillness aggressively, pushing all the clamor and busyness of life aside, can a man truly experience God. In the still and quiet, discernment is learned so that in the heart of the battle it can be practiced. If a man can't practice it when things are still, there is no way he will be able to do so when the arrows are flying.

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