Quotes About Stillness

Corpse Pose sounds like no big deal, right? Then what's so difficult about this spiritualized snooze? Forget about getting your feet behind your head. Just try lying still for ten minutes. With nothing left to do, you're finally forced to come face to face with yourself.

Nothing to do is itself a great doing.

muddy water is often made clear if allowed to stand still.

The Buddha said, "When you are walking, walk. When you are sitting, sit. Don't wobble.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Every human heart has a deep need to love - to be in love, really, with all of life. This is the kind of love that comes when the mind is still. . . . Be still and know that we are all God's children; then you will be in love with all.

Alles bewoog. De vuurzee onder de aardkorst, de ovens van de sterren, en de planeten, en de universa, en het licht in de duisternis, en de stilte in de ijskou. Maar ik voelde...dat angst er bij mij niet in slaagde wortel te schieten. Alles wat op me afkwam –…– zou voorbijgaan en ik –... Ã¢â'¬â€œ, ik zou overeind blijven, ik was de punt van de passer die altijd stilstaat terwijl het potlood eromheen draait en cirkels trekt.

dull things of every day, she was afraid of the silence of

forma de escuadra y un jardín lleno de plantas y de polvo. Allí no corre el tiempo: el aire quedó inmóvil después de tantas lágrimas.

It was happening again now: some pieces of some larger story that I could barely make out were flying into new positions, and I was remembering things I had forgotten, and putting them together differently, and all while I was sitting still and not going anywhere or doing anything—though in another way I was hurtling north at five hundred miles an hour.

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

Neppure un atomo si moveva, nel silenzio grave della notte.

Hoy es siempre todavía. Incluso después de hoy sigue siendo siempre todavía.

Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y toda, es silencio.

Tôi nói v?i ý ngh? là có l? tôi nên im l?ng. Và tôi nói.

When we feel like there isn't enough time in the day for us to get everything done, when we wish for more time," wrote sociologist Christine Carter, "we don't actually need more time. We need more stillness.

Taoist philosophy, "Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.

Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.

Wisdom The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.… Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. ELIOT

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.… Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. ELIOT

bring ourselves back to that place of stillness, imperturbability, and loving—until it becomes second nature to return quickly to what is our true nature.

It was more than knowing or not knowing, beside stillness and shouts, memory and images of the future.

In het algemeen wordt passiviteit te weinig als deugd erkent. Actie lijk altijd beter - want heroïscher - dan rustig afwachten en nietsdoen. Vermoedelijk komt dat ook omdat wij vrijwel allemaal neuroten zijn die de leegte willen opvullen met werk en andere activiteiten.

A quiet mind cureth all.