Quotes About Stillness

When I stand here in front of the cabinet, my heart feels like a silkworm slumbering in its cocoon.

In the stillness we discover that there are other ways of knowing things than through the intellect.

The quiet this evening is unsettling. I hadn't realised how loud life was until it all stopped.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

Calm me, O Lord, as You stilled the storm; Still me, O Lord; keep me from harm. Let all the storms within me cease. Enfold me, Lord, in Your peace. Amen. —CELTIC PRAYER

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still Even among these rocks.

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to life we have refused again and again until now. Until now.

You have a moment in the day, as Blake said, that Satan (the strategic mind, worried about being 'productive') cannot find.

It's just a real gentle moment. I'm here by myself and I don't mind. I kind of wish it could just stay like this for maybe a few years, or I just never moved out of this spot. I could just watch the light stay like this. And maybe somebody coming along and just putting their arms around me for a few minutes.

Molly had moved when the rest of the world was still,

Even the mantis has stopped praying

Eternal Boredom Of The Strifeless Mind

The hardest lesson I had learnt upon my travels was patience. There are times when every muscle, every nerve, screams for movement, when every instinct urges escape. But the instinct to fly is not always a sound one. There are occasions when only stillness can save you.

He paused again, letting his words settle like stones falling to the bottom of a pond.

Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

Silence is the best melody.

When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet

Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be.

kenangan itu cuma hantu di sudut pikir. selama kita diam dan ngga berbuat apa-apa, selamanya dia tetap jadi hantu, ngga akan pernah jadi kenyataan.

In the stillness of the ocean, I wonder at the dancing waves.

Go slow, my life, go slow. Let me enjoy the beauty of silence, serenity, and solitude.

The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment.

Relax, Recharge and Reflect. Sometimes it's OK to do nothing.