Quotes About Stillness

but he does not want to talk about it, he wants a stillness at the end of it.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you...

Writing and painting are modes of performance. We begin in stillness and make contact with what moves through us at the moment. If there is a resistance to expression, we acknowledge its presence and try to accept its place in our life at that moment. Relaxing with the resistance helps to release its negative hold on expression.

There is something about TM. It is the only time I have that stillness... It gives me this peaceful feeling-I just love it so much.

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

When time stops, matter stops.

When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.

You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.

If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.

When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.

In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.

The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.

You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.

Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.

Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.

Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.

With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand.

Silence is not lost time.

Meditation takes time and dedication, but, for me, it's actually just about closing your eyes and being in that moment.

Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.