Quotes About Stillness

Here was the stillness of eternity.

Here, where the world is quiet;Here, where all trouble seemsDead winds' and spent waves' riotIn doubtful dreams of dreams.

Silence is one of the gates to wisdom.

Silence is the garden of thought.

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

I want this noise within me to die down.

I rest all night in the eye of a hurricane.

I don't want to bother anyone anymore, I try to stay still.

I'm the being for whom nothing happens: now nothing happens to you.

I have no skills; I have no hope; I don't want any hope. I simply want to sit here, in this calm.

the hour has not yet ended in which under a cloth of laurel I sat quite still.

there comes a tremor and there comes a pause

it is always midnight in those pools

not looking up but lost in pause

The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky.

Any good photo is a secret of a secret. It's the unknowable glimpsed within a glimpse, the puzzle in plain sight. It's the question that makes us look for an answer we're never going to find. An open case. An unsolved mystery. A good still is never still - it's restive, alive.

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

The only way to silence the cries is by making no sound at all

Le silence est plus tapageur que tout.

El tiempo es una invención del movimiento. Aquel que no se mueve no ve pasar el tiempo.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

I meditate. Just counting my breath. Before I do anything, really.

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

In order for the psychic capacity to work, you must be able to still the interfering thoughts of your conscious mind and turn inwardly. It is very important for you to be able to let go of your restless thoughts, your hopes, dreams, desires, and frustrations. Ideally, when the mind is completely stilled, you should be in such an objective, passive state of mind that you are no longer even conscious that you have a body - almost a prayerful attitude.