Quotes About Stillness

Having gone beyond the mind-made opposites, you become like a deep lake. The outer situation of your life and whatever happens there is the surface of the lake. Sometimes calm, sometimes windy and rough, according to the cycles and seasons. Deep down, however, the lake is always undisturbed. You are the whole lake, not just the surface, and you are in touch with your own depth, which remains absolutely still.

Look at a tree, a plant. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Oír el silencio, dondequiera que esté, es una forma fácil y directa de hacerse presente. Incluso si hay ruido, hay siempre silencio bajo y entre los sonidos.

create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information — this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Have you ever gazed up into the infinity of space on a clear night, awestruck by the absolute stillness and inconceivable vastness of

Na trenutak morate odložiti osobnu prtljagu problema, prošlosti i budu?nosti, kao i sve svoje znanje; ina?e ?ete vidjeti, ali ne?ete vidjeti, ?ut ?ete, ali ne?ete ?uti. Potrebna je vaša apsolutna prisutnost.

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

You have it already. You just can't feel it because your mind is making too much noise.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Step out of the time dimension as much as possible in everyday life.

There is a qualitatively different kind of waiting, one that requires your total alertness. Something could happen at any moment, and if you are not absolutely awake, absolutely still, you will miss it. This is the kind of waiting Jesus talks about. In that state, all your attention is in the Now. There is none left for daydreaming, thinking, remembering, anticipating.

You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness.

allow nature to teach you stillness

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still it is, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Después, la gente venía ocasionalmente a mí y me decía: "Quiero lo que usted tiene. ¿Puede dármelo o mostrarme cómo lograrlo?" Y yo decía: "Usted ya lo tiene. Sólo que no puede sentirlo porque su mente hace demasiado ruido".

That is the joy of Being,' I said. 'You can only feel it when you get out of your head. Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

We have forgotten how to be — to be still, to be ourselves, to be where life is: Here and Now.

That stillness and vastness that enables the universe to be is not just out there in space — it is also within you. When you are utterly and totally present, you encounter it as the still inner space of no-mind. Within you, it is vast in depth, not in extension. Spacial extension is ultimately a misperception of infinite depth — an attribute of the one transcendental reality.

When the compulsive striving away from the Now ceases, the joy of Being flows into everything you do. The moment your attention turns to the Now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction — you don't look to it for salvation. Therefore, you are not attached to the results. Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. You have found the life underneath your life situation. In

Eckhart Tolle

Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser. También crea un falso ser hecho por la mente que arroja una sombra de temor y de sufrimiento.

Sólo cuando aparece el sonido el silencio empieza a ser.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship. But true listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person's attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts.