Quotes About Stillness

Her quiet hands, filling up boxes, inviting all the silence to finally leave the room.

A philosopher's mind is calm like the stillness of a river but goes deep like the depth of the sea

On hearing the subtle unstruck sounds of Om, the mind goes to the state of perfect stillness and the bliss of infinity arises. The chakras and nadis create divine melodies like a heavenly flute.

You are a Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and relaxed.

Just because you don't say much doesn't mean people don't notice you. It's actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There's this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there's the quiet one, the eye of the storm.

A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume...

figure, still very still, with a pool of blood about the head. Vye

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

He felt as if he were a character in Henry James; he began to suspect he was to be that man to whom nothing whatsoever was to happen.

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.

Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

The Rock taught me you don't always have to talk or move all the time. You can just stand there and soak it in. Let the crowd just do what they do.

pellucid sensation. I felt completely free. Nothing

PITHOS Climb into a jar and live for a while. Chill earth. No stars in this stone sky. You have ceased to ache. Your spine is a flower.

I have learned that silence is a way of hearing the voices within and of exploring unexpressed and nascent thoughts and feelings.

Once one thinks like a mountain, the whole world is converted. All things confirm me. Then I sit on dojo cushions that do not move. There is no controller and no one to control.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

Bâtis ton film sur du blanc, sur le silence et l'immobilité.

be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.

I there before thee, in the country that well thou knowest, Already arrived am inhaling the odorous air: I watch thee enter unerringly where thou goest, And anchor queen of the strange shipping there, Thy sails for awnings spread, thy masts bare: Nor is aught from the foaming reef to the snow-capp'd grandest Peak, that is over the feathery palms, more fair Than thou, so upright, so stately and still thou standest. (A Passer-by)