Quotes About Stillness

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

If you're afraid of being grabbed by God, don't look at a wall. Definitely don't sit still.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

One who is constantly resting within himself is capable of endless activity.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.

To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea

Spiritual counselling is helping people find the deep root of stillness in themselves, which is also a connection to everything else.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

Shut lips, sleeping faces, Every stopped machine, The dumb and littered places Where crowds have been:. All silences rejoice, Weep (loudly or low), Speak-but with the voice Of whom, I do not know.

The light was frozen, dead, a ghost.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre.

it was once necessary to proclaim the entire doctrine of Yoga in the fewest possible words.... I did so. "Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!" The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.

Te equivocas si crees que no hacer es vivir mejor. No, no hacer es vivir menos.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.' He said. 'Nothing more, never.

And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.

Un conto è non far niente. Un conto è non poter far niente-

Llovía su vida, frente a sus ojos, espectáculo quieto.

For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the wind in the trees - that Death had just shrieked past like a stinking black eagle and made off with a remarkable man.