Quotes About Stillness

Qualquer movimento, os movimentos do corpo e da alma, bem como o discurso e o raciocínio, devem cessar diante da verdade. Esta, seja a antiga verdade do Ser ou a verdade cristã do Deus vivo, só pode revelar-se na quietude humana.

It is like the distinction between war and peace: just as war takes place for the sake of peace, thus every kind of activity, even the processes of mere thought, must culminate in the absolute quiet of contemplation.11 Every movement, the movements of body and soul as well as of speech and reasoning, must cease before truth. Truth, be it the ancient truth of Being or the Christian truth of the living God, can reveal itself only in complete human stillness.12 Traditionally

I blinked and the images were gone. But I remembered how the laugh and the howl and the splash would ripple and echo in the stillness of our lake, and I wondered if ripples and echoes like those ever fully die away, if somewhere in the woods my father's joyful yelps still bounced quietly off the trees. Silly thought, but there you go.

There is no place more hollow, more soulless, than a school at night. The building had been created for life, for constant motion, for students rushing back and forth, some confident, most scared, all trying to figure out their place in the world. Take that away and you might as well have a body drained of all its blood.

Marcia started up the stairs to the second floor. The lights were dimmer on this level. Her footsteps clacked and echoed against the stillness of a building that during the day knew so much life and energy. There is no place more surreal, more hollow and empty, than a school corridor at night

There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing.

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

When you travel so much, the best and most relaxing thing is to just sit on the couch and not move.

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.