Quotes About Stillness

Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

Practicing silence means making a commitment to take a certain amount of time to simply Be. Experiencing silence means periodically withdrawing from the activity of speech. It also means periodically withdrawing from such activities as watching television, listening to the radio, or reading a book. If you never give yourself the opportunity to experience silence, this creates turbulence in your internal dialogue.

Franz Kafka, the Austrian philosopher and poet, once said, "You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Experience isn't a place; it's a focus of attention. You can live there, at the still point around which everything revolves.

whatever can run can also stand still.

Inside stillness lies a treasure. It can be opened using nothing more than silent awareness - the gaze of the soul. If you wish to open your soul's treasure, regard the present moment as a uniquely precious thing - the still point around which the world revolves.

But time stands still in the dark.

Stillness is the first requirement for manifesting your desires, because in stillness lies your connection to the field of pure potentiality that can orchestrate an infinity of details for you.

Be still and know your soul. Seek it, and when you meet your soul, seize it for yourself, because it's worth far more than gold.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

You don't have to go on a quest to "find" silence-it's a matter of uncovering it right where you are. Think about it: if all external and internal sounds were eliminated, only silence would remain. The question is, how much silence can you bear? How deep are you willing to go below surface living to reconnect with who you truly are?

But now I have re-discovered boredom, where I can fight 'what next' with nothing.

matter how sharp the corner they turned or how deep the pothole they plunged into, Ghastly and Tanith remained perfectly still. Fletcher, on the other hand, was being thrown about like an old shoe in a washing machine, and he did not appreciate it.

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.

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

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.