Quotes About Stillness

exhilarating silence.

There is a magic about the desert at night. Until you have seen it, stood alone in the midst of it, you cannot know what enchantment is. There is a stillness and a nearness of stars that no other place on Earth offers.

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

The house was still as death, and nothing but the wailing of the wind broke the deep hush.

They stood inside their own quiet like a pocket.

stop exercise in every form.

Era ese momento de la alta madrugada en el que la noche está a punto de rendirse al día y hay un tiempo que parece estar fuera del tiempo. Un instante de pura eternidad.

I am not in search of friends and confidences. I'm concentrating on being. I live each hour, one by one. My mind is quiet and still. I am no longer waiting for time to pass

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

I asked Go to answer my questions, but the only sound was always the whistling of the wind filling the empty space.

It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding.

Nag coiled himself down, coil by coil, round the bulge at the bottom of the water jar, and Rikki-tikki stayed still as death.

We have chosen a stillness more powerful than all activity. A detachment more fulfilling than all possession, A wisdom exceeding all knowledge And a love beyond all.

To step into the house was to step into stillness, into warmth even when it was damp and unlit; but after a moment a coldness crept about your shins.

The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen.

Jiko also says that to do zazen is to enter time completely.

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

Time stands still and I with it. All the plans I form fly straight back at me, when I want to spit in my own face.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I would reply: Create silence! The Word of God cannot be heard in the noisy world of today. And even if it were blazoned forth with all the panoply of noise so that it could be heard in the midst of all the other noise, then it would no longer be the Word of God. Therefore create Silence.

Only some one who knows how to remain essentially silent can really talk -- and act essentially

Soul of Gerontius (Hereafter Soul) I went to sleep; and now I am refresh'd, A strange refreshment: for I feel in me An inexpressive lightness, and a sense Of freedom, as I were at length myself, And ne'er had been before. How still it is! I hear no more the busy beat of time, No, nor my fluttering breath, nor struggling pulse; Nor does one moment differ from the next. I had a dream; yes:—some one softly said He's gone; and then a sigh went round the room.

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