Quotes About Stillness

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

The conductor stepped up, tapped twice on the rostrum, and a great hush descended. I felt the stillness, the auditorium alive, expectant. Then he brought down his baton and suddenly everything was pure sound. I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn't just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.

Hay horas normales y hay horas yermas, en las que el tiempo se estanca y se desliza, donde la vida (la vida real) solo existe en otro lugar.

This time the silence was painful. I heard my voice slowly swallowed by it, and couldn't work out what to do with my hands.

Hay horas normales y hay horas yermas, en las que el tiempo se estanca y se desliza, donde la vida (la vida real) solo existe en otro lugar. Vi

You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

Breathe and let be.

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

Here it is… your moment of Zen.

There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.

DURATION OF SILENCE

He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.

The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.

not all thoughts have to become words!

Only in the stillness of thought can decisions be properly made.

Experience yourself in silence.

There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

Calm your waters

Good. Now, I want everyone to stand very still and close their eyes. Who is snoring? Scorchpaw, that's not nearly as funny as you think it is. Only horses sleep standing up, and if you'd like to go live with them and eat grass all day, I'm sure Blackstar can arrange it.

Halt still, Birkenpfote!

I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.

There is a certain nonacquiescence, a noncooperativeness that is the common outgrowth of a life of contemplative prayer.