Stillness Quotes

• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Tree, Looks

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.5, New World Library

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  Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

  Hermann Hesse

  Positive, Being Yourself, Time

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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  In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Spiritual, Encouragement

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 14, 2011

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• True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Creativity, Play

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.7, New World Library

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• We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.

  T. S. Eliot

  Children, Sea, Two

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

  Howard Thurman

  Heart, Giving, Despair

  Howard Thurman (1985). “The Mood of Christmas”

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• Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Joy, Mindfulness

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• In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

  Laozi

  Water, Return, Clarity

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• Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don't grasp and grab for the magic and miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and magic you're seeking will find you.

  Melody Beattie

  Joy, Miracle, Soul

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• Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Skills, Energy, Movement

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.

  John of the Cross

  Meditation, Soul, Spirit

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• Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Journey, Space, Silence

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• Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Prayer, Names, Ideas

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• Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at rest in Christ. It is the place of peace. Meekness springs from a heart of humility, radiating the fragrance of Christ.

  Matthew Henry

  Spring, Heart, Humility

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• Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

  Saint Augustine

  Reflection, Silence, Looks

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• There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Silence, Mind, Done

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Empty yourself of everything.
  Let the mind become still.
  The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
  They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
  Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

  Laozi

  Nature, Fall, Animal

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Nature, Heart, Inspire

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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, Generosity, Dancing

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains

  Martha Beck

  Powerful, Moving, Mountain

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• Allow nature to teach you stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Teach, Stillness Speaks

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.5, New World Library

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• To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

  Morgan Freeman

  Inspirational, Life, Meditation

  "Good Life Practice: The Power of Two Minutes to Shape Your Life" by David Mochel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2017.

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• Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Creation

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already present.

  Gangaji

  Sublime, Usual, Alive

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