Stillness Quotes - Page 4

• Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  World, Form, Stillness Speaks

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.8, New World Library

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• Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Self

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• Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love Yourself, Loving Yourself, Essence

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• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Memorial Day, Peace

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

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• Even though Wisconsin is the only place I want to be, there was a time when everything felt like it was imploding in my head. It was a whole lot of "me" and it was a little unbearable at times - borderline embarrassing, even. It didn't last long, though, and as soon as I got home everything flooded back. It all boils down to that common denominator of stillness and trying to self-discover - I guess it just feels good when I'm there.

  Justin Vernon

  Home, Long, Feel Good

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

  Jean Klein

  Real, Silence, Listening

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• If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

  Zhuangzi

  Water, Mind, Faculty

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. There's an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.

  Bill Laswell

  Mean, Thinking, Space

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• Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
  And if upon its stillness fall
  The visions of a busy brain,
  We'll have our pleasure o'er again,
  To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
  Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.

  Joanna Baillie

  Good Night, Dream, Sweet

  Joanna Baillie (1836). “Dramas: The separation: a tragedy. The stripling: a tragedy ... written in prose. The phantom: a musical drama. Enthusiasm: a comedy”, p.253

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• If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

  Zhuangzi

  Mirrors, Water, Mind

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not create it. Happiness is created through countless choices made and then made again throughout a lifetime. You are its host as well as its guest. You give it form, shape, individuality, texture, tone. And what it allows you to give can change your world. Happiness can be stillness. But it isn't still. It wraps, enchants, heals, consoles, soothes, delights, calms, inspires and connects. It is on your face and in your body. It is in your life and being.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Single Mom, Choices Made, Giving

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• The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

  Jim Elliot

  Wind, Sound, Thunder

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• The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

  Seungsahn

  Girl, Dancing, Water

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• Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Space, Perception, Essentials

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.3, New World Library

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• Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

  Aldous Huxley

  Travel, Heart, Cutting

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.

  Robert Adams

  Change, Future, Learning

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• Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.

  Laozi

  Fate, Taoism, Source

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• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Ancestry, Signals, Breeding

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.139, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Stillness is your essential nature.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Meditation, Essentials

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

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• Words created the future, exacerbated problems, raised barriers between them. But in the silence of Ford's sleep, Ford could love Dan easily; in the stillness of Ford's rest, Dan could adore him without question or fear.

  Jim Grimsley

  Love, Sleep, Silence

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• The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action.

  Sun Bu'er

  Wise, Secret, Action

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Listening, Essentials, Way

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.94, New World Library

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• An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.

  Russell Hoban

  Dark, Night, Reflection

  Russell Hoban (2002). “The Medusa Frequency”, p.80, A&C Black

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