Quotes About Stillness

Sometimes, silence is loud.

We may lose the sense of totality almost at once, but the psyche and body have experienced what wholeness is. They can then reconnect to that still point as to a tuning fork.

Where consciousness and the unconscious intersect at the still point, that is where we are whole.

you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing.

After lunch Tiny returned to his fence work while Granddaddy and Fup repaired to the porch to sip a little Death Whisper, be still, and generally consider the drift of things. (55)

You desire to tame everything,but if you just stand still and feel for a moment you would know how everything yearns to be wild.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

At home i let myself in and stopped, as if there was nothing for me to do and nowhere for me to go in the face of the pictures in my head.

In a few hours the world will resume itself, but for now we're in a pocket of silence. We're in the plasmapause, a place of equilibrium, where the forces of the earth meet the forces of the sun. I imagine it as a place of stillness, where the particles of dust stop spinning and hang motionless in deep space.

The hard floor makes my head ache more than it did before, but I don't get up. I don't move. I feel all the ugliness and shame I've bottled up pour over me and cover me like a blanket.

Quando nada acontece, há um milagre que não estamos vendo.

Every moment is a holy moment if we are present in it. Peace and stillness, love and wisdom, joy and creativity are the fruits of the present.

Two or three times today, take a deep breath and enter the moment with mindful awareness.

They sat so still that each of them might have been alone.

It was one of those still, grey, pearly days, with no wind, when sky and water seemed to merge into one, and everything was soft and sad and dreamy.

The Holy Reality is already here, fully complete. And if you think otherwise, then simply stop, look and listen.

You're not going anywhere.

Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasure o'er again, To warm the heart, to charm the sight, Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.

The world clamors, "Do more! Be all that you can be!" But our Father whispers, "Be still and know that I am God.

This guy was deader than dead, no question.

It was nearly midnight, and the stillness that reigned was rather soothed than interrupted by the gentle dashing of the waters of the bay below, and by the hollow murmurs of Vesuvius, which threw up, at intervals, its sudden flame on the horizon, and then left it to darkness.

Come mi fosse nuovo, osservo tutto. Umido aroma dei pioppi. E taccio. Taccio, pronta ad esser te di nuovo, terra.

Sono giunta fin qui, oziosa, è lo stesso per me dove annoiarmi! Sopra il colle il mulino riposa. Qui puoi stare in silenzio per anni.

In those years only the dead smiled, glad to be at rest.