Quotes About Stillness

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

So when emotions come up, mind the gap. First feel them, then hold still without reacting, and then look—look at the gap.

In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel.

Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.

Nothing ever happens to me," She reflected.

Bugün kimse sana dokunmasa mesela. Öyle dursan. Kimse "Neyin var?" diye sormasa. Çünkü insan?n hiçbir ?eyinin olmad??? günler de olur. Hiçbir ?ey günleri...

them perhaps half an hour to finish all they have to do. Alan gets behind the wheel and honks the horn. In the stillness of the night, it sounds like

All, all, are sleeping on the hill.

It was a quaint, quiet square, very typical of London, full of an accidental stillness.

It came upon the midnight clear,That glorious song of old,From angels bending near the earthTo touch their harps of gold:"Peace on the earth, good will to menFrom heav'n's all-gracious King."The world in solemn stillness layTo hear the angels sing.

The fasts are done; the Aves said; The moon has filled her horn And in the solemn night I watch Before the Easter morn. So pure, so still the starry heaven, So hushed the brooding air, I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings If one should earthward fare.

And in the stillness of the room you heard the roar and howl and crash of the great river whose flood had caught them land shaken them and brought Magnolia Ravenal to bed ahead of her time.

She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.

Son raros los hombres. Recién hice una pasada por el patio llevando café y estaban todos callados, mirándose los pies. Papá, Ernesto, mi marido, Manuel, Pedro y sus primos. Ocho hombres en completa inacción y absoluto silencio. Creo que si les hubiese preguntado: "¿En qué están pensando?", los ocho me habrían contestado: "En nada", y habrían sido sinceros.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

The night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

you could, if you wanted to, spend your entire life in a sitting position. When you weren't lying down.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.

Meditation is the art of staying in this present moment. A sleepy person either lives in the past moment or is dreaming about the future life. But a meditator stays in this present moment and is alert about his thoughts and actions.

Meditation is simplicity itself. One is to just let go, nothing special is supposed to happen.

Os barcos ancorados remexiam com moleza as ancas.

If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance.… In the beginning we have to force ourselves to be silent. But then there is born something that draws us to silence.… If only you practice this, untold light will dawn on you in consequence … after a while a certain sweetness is born in the heart of this exercise and the body is drawn almost by force to remain in silence.

Silence is the fruit of the occupation; it hangs in branches, seeps from gutters.

Her great-uncle seems kind, curious, and entirely sane. Stillness: this is what he radiates more than anything else. The stillness of a tree. Of a mouse blinking in the dark.