Quotes About Stillness

Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

When you're frozen in time, nothing else really seems to matter.

There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

Eternity is the stopped heart of Time.

Time passes so fast. Make time to be still.

Time is just going on and on .But I still here Idle just Waiting for someone and nothing else

It was nice to borrow a slice of extra time.

Dare to keep moving when it is a must and there to keep waiting when you have to, but note, you shall always keep waiting if you keep waiting and you shall always keep moving when you keep moving!

The truth is that there comes a time When we can mourn no more over music That is so much motionless sound

The universe stood still and the universe continued on its path, travelling through endless time.

Take time to see the quiet miracles thatseek no attention

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

He did not have to do anything here. He could just be. Perhaps that was the best and most enduring of lessons one could learn from life.

She tried not to think. She tried to allow the quietness and the dusk to soothe her and heal her.

Go back to sleep. There will be no more dreams.

the slightest noise

Sometimes nothing is the scariest thing of all

Today I'm flying low and I'm not saying a word. I'm letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. The world goes on as it must, the bees in the garden rumbling a little, the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten. And so forth. But I'm taking the day off. Quiet as a feather. I hardly move though really I'm traveling a terrific distance. Stillness. One of the doors into the temple.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. (from The Messenger)

But mostly I just stand in the dark field, in the middle of the world, breathing

Today Today I'm flying low and I'm not saying a word. I'm letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. The world goes on as it must, the bees in the garden rumbling a little, the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten. And so forth. But I'm taking the day off. Quiet as a feather. I hardly move though really I'm traveling a terrific distance. Stillness. One of the doors into the temple.