Quotes About Stillness

The mind is the main instrument to gain enlightenment, but enlightenment is only reached when the mind stops. Q: How can we stop the mind? A: Not hitting it with a hammer. Stop the mind by the mind.

I very rarely get to enjoy doing nothing.

When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want - no guessing.

Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace.

detenerse...

When we love the Lord and seek Him in the stillness of our hearts, He hears us and answers. — Susan E. Ramsden

Spring-water in the green creek is clear Moonlight on Cold Mountain is white Silent knowledge—the spirit is enlightened of itself Contemplate the void: this world exceeds stillness.

Quand la cloche des fleurs résonne au sommet des ombelles, toute la terre se tait, tout le ciel parle.

Un silencio espantoso sucede a todos los ruidos.

there was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

There was no reason why I should go anywhere. The world about me seemed like a vision that was hurrying by while I stood still with my pain.

Peace, prattler.

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.

There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.

I shoot just one moment at a time... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception.

Nowadays you don't get to see composition in a movie because nobody ever keeps the camera still long enough to see it. Actors don't have the thrill and the power of working with space.

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

Dhyana or meditation, means to be beyond the limitations of your body and mind.

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don't want to.

Qué ocurriría si nos quedáramos aquí quietos sin movernos, sin hacer nada? ¿Acaso el tiempo se olvidaría de nosotros, pasaría de largo? Que bajen el telón. Que salgan los créditos. Fin.