Quotes About Stillness

To concentrate properly, you still the wheels of your mind and enter into a quiet, relaxed mental state. When you concentrate, you gather your thoughts together; and you focus all your attention on your ideal, aim, or objective. You are now at a focal or central point, where

The first step in conveying your clarified desire, idea, or image to the deeper mind is to relax, immobilize the attention, and get still and quiet.

It's really not about doing, it's more about being. You might find it relaxing," said Pooh. "I know I do.

As long as you're in motion, your perspective is obscured. Only when you reach the summit and turn to look back, can you be at peace.

Happiness is being in one place. The picture fixes you in one place.

The mind should not be filled with reasoning, worry, anxiety, fear, and the like. It should be calm, quiet, and serene. As

Be still and know that He is God. Be assured that as long as you trust Him, He will never fail you or disappoint you.

The mind should not be filled with reasoning, worry, anxiety, fear, and the like. It should be calm, quiet, and serene.

1 Kings 19:11,12 KJV

God's voice to Elijah wasn't in the power of the wind, the earthquake, or the fire, but in the whisper. Elijah had a reining ear, one that was trained and sensitive toward his Master, so he did what God said to do, which saved his life. God still speaks softly and in whispers deep in our hearts today. Ask Him to give you a hearing ear so you can hear His still, small voice.

And though there were no children playing, no doves, no blue-shadowed roof tiles, I felt that the town was alive. And that if I heard only silence, it was because I was not accustomed to silence - maybe because my head was still filled with sounds and voices.

One must have a mind of winter.

The truth is that there comes a time When we can mourn no more over music That is so much motionless sound

Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.

Peace is always beautiful.

An inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Sabbath becomes a decisive, concrete, visible way of opting for and aligning with the God of rest.

Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.

It is very easy to never fall down: Just don't ever do anything.

There was silence, all the louder for having been broken once.

The question is never ''Does God speak?'' but rather ''Am I listening?'' To best hear what God has to say to you, you must still your heart. Set aside your pressing demands. Turn off all your electronic distractions. Rarely does God shout to make himself heard!

If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless, nourishing rest – can invite a healing of this violence. When we consecrate a time to listen to the still, small voices, we remember the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful. We remember from where we are most deeply nourished, and see more clearly the shape and texture of the people and things before us.

It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action.