Quotes About Stillness

Sit still long enough and everything will come to you.

Perhaps this is what all prayer is, when the ceremony and the theology are peeled away, a serious stillness in which one talks quietly to one's own best self.

Leer es fundamentalmente un síntoma. De una imaginación saludable, de nuestro interés en este y otros mundos, de nuestra capacidad para estar callados e inmóviles, también para soñar despiertos

Because no windows were open and the air was so still and cold that the trees dared not move for fear of encountering more of it than they had to, Christiana thought that she had entered a city of the dead.

It was easy to be clever, but hard to look into the face of God, who is found not so much by cleverness as by stillness.

Real power is with those who are forever still, and I want to join them. Good God. Why? Because I love them. You mean like Hamlet jumping into the grave? Yes. You can't do that! Arturo screamed. This is the twentieth century. And, besides, he jumped out. He climbed out. All right, he climbed out. Better that your soul should be on fire. It is on fire, and when you give it air it will flare like the sun. Even I ... My soul is on fire.... I, an accountant!

the greater the stillness, the farther you could travel, until, in absolute immobility, you achieved absolute speed.

Rome was not meant to move, but to be beautiful. The wind was supposed to be the fastest thing here, and the trees, bending and swaying, to slow it down. Now

It seems that intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

The gift of patience opens when our body, heart, and mind slow enough to move in unison.

It is a mysterious and strenuous and simple practice: to walk when we are able and be still when we are not, to bleed the dark that builds within us, and trade it for the light which is always waiting. Despite

Even the formal measure of the Seasons seemed suspended in the wintry silence.

Don't do something—just stand there!

The evening was warm, and almost transparent in its clearness, and very quiet.

When silence takes possession of you; when far from the racket of the human highway the sacred fire flames up in the stillness; when peace, which is the tranquillity of order, puts order in your thoughts, feelings, and investigations, you are in the supreme disposition for learning; you can bring your materials together; you can create; you are definitely at your working point; it is not the moment to dwell on wretched trifles, to half live while time runs by, and to sell heaven for nothings.

the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death….

When you don't know what to do, do nothing.

When you love something enough time races ahead like the wind chasing autumn leaves, sending them skipping and dancing out of reach, no matter how fast you run. But when you want something and must wait to get it, time stops

Stillness A cock crows and someone Strums a koto. Nothing's wanting. In the midst of this stillness, I'm still. Could I catch it, I'd drop That butterfly into my mouth.

HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church

Be still and know that I am God, she thought. Her favorite Bible verse. And stillness had saved her grandmother once. So that's what she had to do as well, to be still and let everything fall back into place on its own.

Humility is attentive patience.

To see a landscape as it is when I am not there... When I am in any place, I disturb the silence of heaven and earth by my breathing and the beating of my heart.

Sólo ha pasado una cosa importante durante los últimos tres días, y es que nada ha pasado.