Stillness Quotes - Page 7

• The U theory suggests that the central integrating thought ... will emerge from building three integrated capacities: a new capacity for observing that no longer fragments the observer from what's observed; a new capacity for stillness that no longer fragments who we really are from what's emerging; and a new capacity for creating alternative realities that no longer fragments the wisdom of the head, heart and hand.

  Betty Sue Flowers

  Heart, Reality, Hands

  Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.211, Crown Business

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• Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.

  Martin Laird

  Letting Go, Reality, Land

  Martin Laird (2006). “Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• You see more sitting still than chasing after.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Sitting Still, Chasing, Stills

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• There is something about TM. It is the only time
  I have that stillness... It gives me this peaceful
  feeling-I just love it so much.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Giving, Peaceful, Feelings

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• When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Keys, Desire

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.91, New World Library

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• If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become
  one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen.
  If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Creative, Action

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.47, Penguin

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• The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Bible, Home, Biblical

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• With stillness comes the benediction of peace”.
  “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.  Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.  This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Thinking, Events

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• Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

  Meister Eckhart

  Creativity, Found, Solutions

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• The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Mind, Movement, Benefits

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.20, Harmony

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• What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

  Gangaji

  Accepting, Capacity, Invitations

  Gangaji (2008). “The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance: Easy Read Comfort Edition”, p.210, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Dream, Prayer, Sleep

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• There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

  Guy Finley

  Silence, Solitude, Secret

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Dec 16, 2016

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• There are different worlds, endless worlds, and different beings come from different worlds. In my particular case, I come from the stillness. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. I know it quite well.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Light

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• The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.

  Gustav Landauer

  Real, Transformation

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• In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.

  Rumi

  Order, Stills

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• I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

  Douglas Lockwood

  Thinking, Fog, Mystery

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• Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Meditation

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• I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

  Edward Kennedy

  Morning, Fall, Winter

  Esquire: The Meaning of Life, (p. 81), 2009.

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• Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Heart, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.46

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• The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Prayer, Eye

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• What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

  Edward Abbey

  Freedom, Rights, Discovery

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