Quotes About Stillness

Este o senza?ie stranie: s? sim?i cum via?a ?i se schimb? total; e suficient s? stai pe loc, s? nu faci nimic, s? percepi senza?ia de schimbare.

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

O que o acordou foi o silêncio.

Her job was to rest before dying. All she had to do was nothing at all.

I'm the kind of person who becomes silent when I get scared, because I hope Death will not notice me if I am very still and very quiet. It has worked well so far.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.

I només tu ets pròxima i et sento, immòbil i expectant, just al darrera de tantes portes que cap pany no tanca.

This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway. Step around the poisonous vipers that slither at your feet, attempting to throw you off your course. Be bold. Be humble. Put away the incense and forget the incantations they taught you. Ask no permission from the authorities. Slip away. Close your eyes and follow your breath to the still place that leads to the invisible path that leads you home.

So you sit down to meditate not only because it helps you to find rest in the arms of the formless Beloved but also because it increases your chances of being stunned by beauty when you get back up. Encounters with the sacred that radiate from the core of the ordinary embolden you to cultivate stillness and simple awareness. In the midst of a world that is begging you to distract yourself, this is no easy practice. Yet you keep showing up. You are indomitable. You are thirsty for wonder.

The Sacred Feminine expressed is love, and this love is both active and passive, dynamic and receptive, stillness and movement, and spiritual and material.

In my essence, I am a stone, unmoving for ten thousand years, unless picked up and moved.

We're already too late, so there's no need to go any faster.

The Voice of silence is louder than any Noise.

You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

Sometimes," she murmured, "on cold, starry nights in Minnesota, if you stand really still and listen really hard . . . you'll freeze solid.

the air had that midwinter crackle. You know that feeling, like the air might break? .

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. ...

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

[M]editation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

Only death can calm the mind completely.

Silence does not need to be praised, as it will disturb it or add unnecessary noise.