Quotes About Stillness

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

Meditation is bringing the mind home.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.

Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.