Quotes About Stillness

Disciplined inaction.

Christmas is a time of silent waiting.

Standing there, I am struck by a strong but pleasant sadness. All my anxiety leaves me as I look outside. I stand and look for a while longer and then return to bed.

I really love peace and quiet.

I love lying in darkness.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

The quietness will slow my pulse, the silence will open my ears, and something sacred will happen. The soft slap of sandaled feet will break the stillness, a pierced hand will extend a quiet invitation, and I will follow.

Be still and allow God to be hallowed in your life. For the Tough Times

Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.

Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change.

Solitude itself is a way of waiting for the inaudible and the invisible to make itself felt. And that is why solitude is never static and never hopeless. On the other hand, every friend who comes to stay enriches the solitude forever; presence, if it has been real presence, does not ever leave.

Let silence in. She will rarely speak or mew, She will sleep on my bed And all I have ever been Either false or true Will live again in my head. For it is now or not As old age silts the stream, To shove away the clutter, To untie every knot, To take the time to dream, To come back to still water.

photographs freeze the current of life.

O, in this single hour I live, All of myself and do not move. I, the pursued, who madly ran, Stand still, stand still and stop the sun!

The Christmas tree was a dark pyramid in the living room corner. Presents hid beneath it, wrapping paper quicksilver in the moonlight. He absorbed the stillness. An electric hiss seemed to saturate the air.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

But Fuchsia might as well have been carved from dark marble. Only her tears moved.

I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

Evagrius said, 'Cut the desire for many things out of your heart and so prevent your mind being dispersed and your stillness lost.

Toda la infelicidad humana tiene un mismo origen: no saber estar tranquilamente sin hacer nada en una habitación.