Quotes About Stillness

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.

Sometimes, when you look back, you can point to a time when your world shifts and heads in another direction. In lace reading this is called the "still point.

Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest.

Nine o'clock in the evening.

The thing about light is that it really isn't yours; it's what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.

and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear...

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. T. S. ELIOT

T. S. Eliot wrote, 'Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.' We long for this, and yet we check our smartphones every ten minutes for news, texts, distraction.

I feel a hunger now- a real hunger-for letting the pool still itself & seeing the reflections.