Quotes About Stillness

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.

This woman was so cross-eyed. She can go to a tennis match and never move her head.

Meditation is nothing but taking a mental shower.

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.

Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.

It's hard to do nothing because you tend to do something and then you have to drop everything.

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind.

Capture the sacred moment.

Slow down. Take note of the present.

In times of sorrow, be still.

It is better to be still than to speak when you are angry.

A calm water is like a still soul.

Silence guides the mind...

There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.

Rest. Rest. Rest in God's love," Madame Guyon had written. "The only work you are required now to do is to give your most intense attention to His still, small voice within.

There is a little dull ache for Oblomov and his dreams. Man does not live by bread alone, not even by the most wholesome bread punctually served. There is dream-stuff as well as bread-stuff. Sometimes man's strength is to sit still.

What poems are doing is counterbalancing the mainstream tenor of our culture, which is to do, to be active, to be energetic and to prove one's self… and one of the messages underlying all poems that move us is that we have nothing at all to prove

discovered in herself a still, quiet center she had never suspected to exist.

Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.

There, behind the eye of the camera, I was truly at peace.