Quotes About Stillness

absolute stillness. The highway was deserted. There was no traffic.

Dawn on New Year's Day is as close as any inhabited place gets to absolute stillness.

To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. I don't even want good things anymore. I just want nothing.

THE MOMENT OF DECISION is the loneliest in human life. It must be come upon in stillness and darkness and brooding thoughts and doubts torn out from the deep reaches of the soul.

Long shadows of evening creep up the walls, inching closer. Gradually, they reach fully across us, holding us in the stillness that only night can bring. In the hazy gloom of dusk, we are silhouettes of ourselves, reduced to our very essence. The night grows bolder. Unafraid, it opens its mouth and swallows us whole.

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

His face was terrifying in its stillness, with only his eyes alive, glittering with rage. She could feel the force of his anger in the coiled strength of his body, hear it in the almost inaudible softness of his tone. He wasn't a man who lost control in his anger; he gained it to an even greater degree.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

Be very very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever. You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen.

Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart.

Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.

We don't sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we'll be more awake in our lives.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.