Stillness Quotes - Page 8

• When there's somebody there who is transparent enough so that the stillness comes through unhindered, there's a reciprocal movement in you because the presence of stillness suddenly recognizes itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Movement, Enough, Reciprocal

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Space, World

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• After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ideas, Giving

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• Avoid the things in your life that take away from your stillness. Find things that add to that stillness. Bring them more into your life. It doesn't matter what works or doesn't. It is all individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Add, Matter, Gaining Power

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• To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Lying, Buddhism

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• Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Meditation, Important, Action

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• Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.

  Shantideva

  Passion, Perfect, Silence

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• The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode

  Andrew Schneider

  Crush, Real, Sleep

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• My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, and remember who you are. A place, with others of like mind, to find and lose yourself in the transcendental light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Mind

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• We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.

  Frederick Lenz

  Natural, States

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• Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources – it’s a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.

  Pico Iyer

  Years, Luxury, Silence

  Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Crazy, Meditation, Listening

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Sage, Action, Intense

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Cities, Empty Life

  "Saroyan's Literary Quarantine" by Peter H. King, in The Los Angeles Times, March 26, 1997.

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• O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Law, Instruments, Abandon

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Reality

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• Currents of energy shimmer through our bodies. Like shooting stars, we rocket through spacious stillness. But this silent, unmoving background is nothing like the granite ideas we use trying to take root in groundless soil.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Stars, Ideas, Roots

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• Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

  Donna Karan

  Meditation, Down And, Way

  "Donna Karan's New Fragrance Is Zen in a Bottle". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. September 16, 2016.

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• I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Moving, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.

  Andrew X. Pham

  War, Heart, Men

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• Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.

  Tara Brach

  Mind, Relax, Habit

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Kaz's art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind.

  Joan Halifax

  Art, Powerful, Discipline

  "About Kazuaki Tanahashi: An Interview with Roshi Joan Halifax". Shambhala Interview, www.shambhala.com.

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• When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Silence, Mind

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• The stillness of God is perfect. Nothing has to be added to it. Nothing can be taken away.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Taken, Perfect

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• We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

  David L. Ulin

  Book, Waiting, Asking

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