Quotes About Stillness

When you're waiting, you're not doing nothing. You're doing the most important something there is. You're allowing your soul to grow up. If you can't be still and wait, you can't become what God created you to be.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait. . . .                           So the darkness shall be the light,                           and the stillness the dancing. T. S. ELIOT

Quietness has a strange, spongy hum that can nearly break your eardrums. I didn't know if it was the emptiness, the

I fell quiet, too. The wooden door onto the courtyard was flung wide onto the Egyptian night. I listened to wind shake the palm fronds. The dark, tumbling world.

They say in extreme moments time will slow, returning to its unmoving core, and standing there, it seemed as if everything stopped. Within the stillness, I felt the old, irrepressible ache to know what my point in the world might be. I felt the longing more solemnly than anything I'd ever felt, even more than my old innate loneliness.

stopped. Within the stillness, I felt the old, irrepressible ache to know what my point in the world might be. I felt the longing more solemnly than anything I'd ever felt, even more than my old innate loneliness.

Tranquility in front of me. Calmness beside me. Stillness around me. Compassion inside me.

the house and everyone in it lay in a sleep that would not be broken.

Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes.

I am tired. I would like to be a mountain, a tree, a stone.

Be still. Be silent. Find the center of yourself.

The air was still. The silvery vapour hung serenely on the far horizon, and the frosty stars blinked brightly. Everyone knows the effect of such a scene on a mind already saddened. Fancies and regrets float mistily in the dream, and the scene affects us with a strange mixture of memory and anticipation, like some sweet old air heard in the distance.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Utterly still,all but invisible against the wall of the stable, the Dragon kept watch over his Saxon bride.

People go, you know. It's only you that remains. That's the way it will be. That's certain at least. It takes years to learn to be still.

Thich Nhat Hanh said: "I am not running anymore; I have run all my life; now I am determined to stop and really live my life.

Nothing so becomes us as stillness and quiet serenity.

Think of peace that so permeates our entire being, a peace that is closer than our hands and feet, closer even than our breathing.

Once you stand anywhere, you turn to stone

Everyone grew still, exactly as she'd asked. The little thing skittered around feet, visible one moment, lost the next. A man near Mick - the very man who was part of the couple who'd been at Abernathy and Freigh's when the ferret had gotten loose six weeks ago - said, 'Oh, I hope you can get her. My pet monkey ran out of the house last month, and we never found him. I've been distraught ever since.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

In greeting each morning remind yourself of Dadirri by blessing yourself with the following; "Let tiny drops of stillness fall gently through my day".

There's this rushing sound, like white noise. The sound of nothing.

And then they left, and all was quiet, but it wasn't peaceful. Just empty.