Stillness Quotes - Page 10

• All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Feelings

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• Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Ocean, Buddhism

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• Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Art, Flower

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• It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, Buddhism, Weekend

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• Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We just have to be quiet enough to let that course of action present itself to us. And we need the confidence to act when life shows us what we need to do.

  Brad Warner

  Confidence, Buddhist, Believe

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.46, New World Library

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• Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Crazy, Buddhism, Perfect

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• To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

  John Daido Loori

  Mean, Flow, Emptiness

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• Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

  Ellis Peters

  Home, Circles, Half

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3066, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

  Karl Rahner

  Eerie, Names, Silence

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• The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ignorance, Ideas, Silence

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.129, Faber & Faber

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• I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.

  Dan Winters

  Realization, Debt, World

  Dan Winters (2014). “Road to Seeing”, p.1967, New Riders

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• Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

  Robin Hobb

  Communication, Air, Anxiety

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• I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.

  Claire Morgan

  Energy, Movement, Certain

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• Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Understanding, Action, Moments

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Dec 10, 2015

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• We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

  Tony Kushner

  Rocks, Progress, Desire

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.275, Theatre Communications Group

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• Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

  Adam Baldwin

  Technique, Captivating, Stills

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• There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head or hands. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around. I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have been. They were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual allowance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Morning, Taken

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• In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.

  John Banville

  Cities, Venice, Squares

  John Banville (2011). “The Newton Letter”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Russia, People, Suffering

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• A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Rain, Air

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.38

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• I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the day sinks and becomes night. You can never scare me. No human being will be able to scare me ever again. I have a prayer that I repeat to myself in absolute stillness: May a wind come to stir up the ocean and the stifling twilight. May a bird come from water out there and explode the silence with its call.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Beach, Dog, Prayer

  Ingmar Bergman (1990). “Images: my life in film”, Arcade Publishing

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• What will really release the kundalini is creating a stillness in your life. This stillness will come about through deep caring and introspection. It will come about slowly and then quickly - it builds momentum.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Caring, Creating

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• I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Beautiful, Two, Perception

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• There are a sort of men, whose visages
  Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
  And do a willful stillness entertain,
  With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
  Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
  As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
  And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Dog, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Simple, World, Common

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.89, Stanford University Press

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