Quotes About Stillness

The more one concentrates on breathing, the more the external stimuli fade into the background.

It seemed that all the time in the world had passed, and that none had passed at all.

It was like, oh, we've found the still, dead center of things. This is the quiet middle place where nothing can be done.

What happens at the end of a story? Something changes, or it doesn't. I like it best when things just stop.

But it was true that I preferred to do nothing.

She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do.

as an explosion. Imagine a stick of dynamite standing in a stationary position on a table. Nothing is moving, so the total momentum of

Words aren't necessary. They won't change anything.

Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

Get down. Shut Up. And Listen," ~Jenna Heap

Mary hadn't said a word. She'd seemed frozen. It had been as if she were holding her breath.

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

I have no goals or ambitions whatsoever.

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Everything is dead while it lives.

I can meditate anywhere, anytime, even whilst talking to you.

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still

Una persona no puede correr y aprender a la vez. Debe permanecer en un lugar durante un tiempo.