Quotes About Stillness

In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.

It's weird to sit as a comedian. Being still drives me crazy.

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

Toen ze weer over het grind liep, terug naar de mannen, begon de zon als een gek om haar as te tollen, het groen werd dieper groen, de warmte nog bladstiller en nog luier vlijde het lauwe gras zich neer, maar hoogstwaarschijnlijk was dit allemaal maar verhitte verbeelding.

Pour agir, Saint-Menoux va cesser pendant quelques secondes de se tenir hors du temps.

Stillness is always waiting for you to reconnect to it; to know the truth once again

Almost all of my really good times have been silent but have had to end.

Psalms 46:10 tells us to "Be Still and Know that I am God."

Primera conclusión: para leer, hay que aprender a estar quieto.

Para pensar hay que dejar de tomar decisiones.

The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.

Here. Right here, right now bring your mind to this place and time. Invite it, even if it resists, to sit and witness what it is to be alive. Let there be no ulterior motive in this moment but to be. Rest on the waves of breath and choose to experience all of it. Let thoughts float through and leave again, as the mind slowly settles like snow inside a shaken paperweight. This is all there is. Here. Right here and now.

The human mind has often been compared to a hyper-active chattering monkey who refuses to stop moving or shut up.

Quiet is here and all in me. (Dress of White Silk)

Silence held him in its cold and gentle hands.

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere

A thing can travel everywhere, just by holding still.

Je ne fais aucun mal en restant ici. I do no harm by remaining here.

Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying.

You can watch the hour hand, Mimi finds, hold your eyes on it all around the circle of the clock, and never once see it move.

The solitary act of sitting over the page and waiting for her hand to move may be as close as she'll ever get to the enlightenment of plants.