Quotes About Stillness

I lie along the body of this life,all night stilling my breath to listen to breath,feeling its weight heavy against my weight.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Blaise Pascal: "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.

The air was still, like a held breath.

down. He realized he hadn't taken a single sip.

It's so quiet you can hear the dark sliding down the sky.

the sky, settling in

BE AT REST ONCE MORE, O MY SOUL. PSALM 116:7

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".

The primal spirit loves stillness, and the conscious spirit loves movement.

Chuang Tzu had an apt view on such quiet receptivity: "There is happiness in stillness.... If you are open to everything you see and hear, and allow this to act through you, even gods and spirits will come to you."6

But one thing above all gave Bollingen its special quality: silence. Jung was a great one for silence, just as he could on occasion be a torrential talker. The two compensated each other. It was a vital necessity for him to sink himself in profound introversion; this was the fountainhead of helpful and vivifying powers. Creative ideas took shape in the inner and outer stillness.82

The] Tao [Self] Is simplicity, stillness, Indifference, purity. Here the highest knowledge Is unbounded.71

Dharma companions filling mountains, a sangha forms of itself: chanting, sitting ch'an stillness. Looking out from distant city walls, people see only white clouds.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.

desert kept a still tongue, and when

God is silent. Everything comes out of silence.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.