Stillness Quotes - Page 13

• Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Mind

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• The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Roots, Mind

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• From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

  Rod Stryker

  Powerful, Yoga, Destiny

  "The 6-Point Method for Breaking Unhealthy Habits" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Education, Teacher

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1790.

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• Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wisdom, Understanding, Moments

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Oneness, Tree, Looks

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

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• Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Inspiring, Perfect

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.291, Faber & Faber

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• When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

  Theodore Bikel

  Moving, Audience, Breaths

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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. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ignorance, Dust, Ideas

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

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• You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to the all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow.

  Gary Gygax

  Adventure, Land, Giving

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• Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Memories, Ideas, Curves

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• King Arthur is profoundly stupid and inept.. then there's Clive Owen, rising above it all. Aloof yet watchful, the actor cultivates an inner stillness that is perfect for faintly ironic brooders. He neither distances himself from this risible material nor pulls out the stops and opens himself to ridicule. His King Arthur tells us little about Arthur, but much about protecting one's flank. The mark of a box-office king?

  David Edelstein

  Kings, Distance, Stupid

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• Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

  Adyashanti

  Fire, Openness, Stills

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• Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Soul

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• There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Yoga, Body, Care

  "Jon Kabat-Zinn on Living Mindfuly". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2010.

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• Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Contemplation, Activity, Millions

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• Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

  Gore Vidal

  Hygiene, Literature, World

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections upon a sinking ship”

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• I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness.

  Stephanie Ellis

  Meditation, Healthy, Important

  "Stephanie Ellis on being vegetarian, human trafficking, and taking ownership of your life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Years, Icons, America

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• I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Beautiful, Inner Peace, Trying

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• There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Running, Tape, Knows

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• Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Effort, Watches

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• Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

  Pico Iyer

  Adventure, Mean, Years

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• I feel like the stillness of Ralph Angel - him being formerly incarcerated, being a Black man, being misunderstood in this world, I felt like that brought him to a place where he thought he had to be an observer - externally and internally.

  Kofi Siriboe

  Angel, Men, Black

  Source: www.ebony.com

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