Stillness Quotes - Page 6

• We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Silence

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• As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

  Adyashanti

  Knowing, Mind, Return

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• Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spirit, Behinds

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• Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.

  Deepak Chopra

  Space, Silence, Spirit

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness”, p.120, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

  Adyashanti

  Past, Mind, Moments

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• Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Tree, Teach

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World”, p.27, New World Library

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• When we sit in stillness, we are profoundly active.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Active

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• Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Fitness, Buddhist, Exercise

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• To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Silence, Listening, Noise

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.103, New World Library

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• Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

  Zhuangzi

  Running, Men, Mirrors

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.69, Columbia University Press

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• In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

  Brian Tracy

  Moving On, Action, Rapid Change

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 15, 2012

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• We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Action, Tranquility, Used

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Other Side of a Frontier”, p.351, A&C Black

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• You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

  William Stafford

  Rivers, Silence, Waiting

  William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn't move, that doesn't go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.

  Roger Housden

  Moving, Essence, Silence

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Laughter, Angel

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• A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

  George MacDonald

  Baby, Stars, Home

  George MacDonald (1871). “Violin songs. Songs of the days and nights. A book of dreams. Roadside poems. Poems for children”, p.252

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• Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Islands, Oasis, Offering

  "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.

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• I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Hope, Light

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

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• God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.

  Jan L. Richardson

  Strength, Soul, May

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• Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

  Paul Brunton

  Serenity, Taste, Silent

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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• December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad and spacious, on the down Deepens, and dusk embues me where I stand, With grave diminishings of green and brown, Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Twilight, Land, Sky

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Fall, Tin, Afternoon

  P. G. Wodehouse (1992). “Mr. Mulliner Speaking”, Random House (UK)

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• Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Meditation, Mind

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• I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

  Sarah Paulson

  Reactions, Immediacy, Audience

  Interview with Julianne Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. Interview with Julianne Moore.

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• The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Mean, Science, Air

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Kameshwar C. Wali (2001). “A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar : with Commentary”, p.1286, World Scientific

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