Quotes About Stillness

Where shall he find, in foreign land, So lone a lake, so sweet a strand!-- There is no breeze upon the fern, No ripple on the lake, Upon her eyry nods the erne, The deer has sought the brake; The small birds will not sing aloud, The springing trout lies still, So darkly glooms yon thunder-cloud, That swathes, as with a purple shroud

The act of meditation is being spacious.

My teacher Dr. Tully said the most powerful thing you can do is nothing. When you relax and step back, you make room for your spirit to step up, step in, and work its magic on your behalf. He taught me that when guidance isn't forthcoming, if you sit still and do nothing but relax for a while, it will show up.

Silence is great. It's peaceful. It's something we all need, in this hectic modern life, silence.

What if I do nothing for six minutes? What am I supposed to write down then?

The dead clay makes no protest.

Noor was Sajida's secret. She knew the exact moment her child was conceived. Purple passed slowly, the lowest of clouds, over her eyes. Bathed in such magnificent color, Sajida lay perfectly still. Much later, she would try to relive the exact moment, as if she needed to understand how the fact of her child could have entered her body and mind at the same time. But Sajida would not summon the gentle shade ever again.

Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.

In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life.

Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace.

I touched you and my life stopped

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.

I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. —Anonymous

Calm of mind, all passion spent.

No war, or battle's soundWas heard the world around.The idle spear and shield were high up hung.

You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined to watch the way of rain When it falls slow and free. Imitate the habit of twilight, Taking time to open the well of color That fostered the brightness of day. Draw alongside the silence of stone Until its calmness can claim you.

Silence. Complete and utter silence.