Quotes About Stillness

For an instant, silence, nosier than a waterfall.

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

Monsieur Man-in-a-hurry, you can find me without running—ME, you understand?

Een zee zonder golven is geen zee

Silence alone is great; all else is weakness.

That's what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.

The air itself smelled of peaches, here and all over Unity; when the breeze came up, petals fell like snow. If a person didn't move, if she was completely still, the petals streamed over her, catching in the hem of her clothes, in the strands of her hair, white as snow, quiet as snow, silent and fleeting and drifting down from above to cover her and carry her home.

A person got to really see things if she wasn't racing through life

The living room seemed to be where no living ever actually occurred.

Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one else can see.

How to stop rushing from place to place, always looking ahead to the next thing while the moment in front of me slipped away unnoticed.

I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

There's no need to rush, Arch Lector. That's the trouble with good legs, you tend to run around too much. If you have trouble moving, on the other hand, you don't move until you damn well know it's time.

When you're planning what to do, always think of doing nothing first, see where that gets you.

Ése es el problema que tiene la gente que dispone de un buen par de piernas, que siempre van corriendo a todas partes.

You agreed. I just stood here.

All was repeated in the still mirror of the lake below – another, shadowy world, upside down beneath his own.

If you find your mind drifting to thoughts about people you know, various problems you have, events that happened in the past or that are coming up in your future, your body, your weight, your pain, your hunger, or even how long this meditation will go on, simply become aware of those thoughts and then bring your consciousness back to the blackness or the quantum void of possibility. And then, once more, surrender into nothing.

When we sit for long enough not doing anything, we begin to feel something. That something is who we really are.

Then, for a while, it was quite still in the old foundry, where the man and the devil lay side by side--although which was which would perhaps have been a matter for theological debate.

Silence is the purest form of harmony.

Ever try not to think? It's like trying not to breathe—no one can do it for long.