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  All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 22, 2009

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  Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Meditation, Midst, Thousand

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• One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Motivation, Rushing

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• Love works miracles in stillness.

  Herbert Read

  Miracle

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• It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Serenity, World

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• Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Listening, Looks, Action

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.9, New World Library

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• The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Thought Provoking, Doe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

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• Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

  Katrina Kenison

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

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• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  William Penn

  Easter, Being Alone, Health

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorial Day, Peace, War

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Question your thoughts.
  Question your stories.
  Question your assumptions.
  Question your opinions.
  Question your conclusions.
  Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy.
  The keys to freedom are in your hands.
  Use them.

  Adyashanti

  Freedom, Keys, Hands

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• The greatest revelation is stillness.

  Laozi

  Revelations

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• Do not take hold of a past that no longer serves you, but embrace the stillness that is right now.

  Michelle Cruz

  Past, Embrace, Right Now

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• When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Moving, Water, Ordinary

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• Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.17, New World Library

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• To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Joy, Enlightenment

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.154, New World Library

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• Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

  Annie Dillard

  Song, Voice, Whirlwind

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• That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Challenges, Just Being

  Source: collider.com

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• We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

  Eckhart Tolle

  Rocks, Serenity, Mindfulness

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.62, New World Library

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• When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Balance, World, Loser

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.3, New World Library

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• A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Spiritual, Real, Love Is

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• Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Lakes, Clouds, Sky

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• Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Focus, Routine

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.305, Harper Collins

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• True power is stillness within motion.

  Laozi

  True Power

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