Quotes About Stillness

If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

How kind is weariness sometimes! It is like the Father's hand laid a little heavy on the heart to make it still.

he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

For the master believed in solitude and silence. Say rather, he believed in God. What the youth might think, feel, or judge, he could not tell; but he believed that when the Human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

When you have got quite alone, sit down and be lonely…fold your hands in your lap, and be still. Do not try to think anything… by and by, it may be, you will begin to know something of nature. Nature will soon speak to you, or not until, as Henri Vaughn says, some veil be broken in you

He thought of nothing he could say.

Sen bir aylak, bir uyurgezersin, bir istiridyesin. Tan?mlar saatlere, günlere göre deÄŸiÅŸiyor ama ta??d?klar? anlam az çok belli: YaÅŸaman?n, harekete geçmenin, bir ÅŸey yapman?n pek sana göre olmad???n? hissediyorsun; sadece sürüp gitmek istiyorsun, sadece bekleyiÅŸi ve unutuÅŸu istiyorsun.

Ne kimseyi görme, ne konuÅŸma, düÅŸünme, d??ar? ç?kma, yerinden k?m?ldama isteÄŸi duyuyorsun.

Ne plus rien vouloir. Attendre jusqu'à ce qu'il n'y ait plus rien à attendre. [...] Ce sera devant toi, au fil du temps, une vie immobile, sans crise, sans désordre : nulle aspérité, nul déséquilibre. Minute après minute, heure après heure, jour après jour, saison après saison [...]

You no longer need excuses, regrets, nostalgia, You reject nothing, you refuse nothing. You have ceased going forward, but that is because you weren't going forward anyway, you're not setting off again, you have arrived, you can see no reason to go any further.

Tú no te mueves. No te moverás. Otro, un socias, un doble fantasmagórico y meticuloso hace, quizás, en tu lugar uno a uno, los gestos que tú ya no haces.

The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.

Only in the pauses between things, in the brief contemplative spaces of just being, can we catch a glimpse of love itself.

Outside I saw her sitting in the wheelchair, hands folded on her lap, and I knew I was living the moment that says nothing, that will allow nothing said of consequence.

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing.

An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

There was nothing to do and not enough time to do nothing in.