Stillness Quotes - Page 9

• There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change There was a strange stillness The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.

  Rachel Carson

  Morning, Spring, Heart

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• Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. ... those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Heart, Men, Greed

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.331, Macmillan

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• In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Silence, Serenity, Apprenticeship

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• We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspiration, Thinking, Meditation Practice

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.76, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

  George Eliot

  Mirrors, Pulse, Done

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.792, George Eliot

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• Stillness is the ruler of haste.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Haste, Rulers

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• When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Peace, Ocean, Wind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1855). “Tales and Sketches of New England Life: Comprising "The Mayflower," and Other Miscellaneous Writings”, p.325

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• Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, Mind, Enlightenment

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• The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and that's to be in the garden of the heart, in the perfect stillness, where the white light of eternity meets the white light of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Spiritual, Heart

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• A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Art, States, Works Of Art

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Real, Buddhism

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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. But true listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person's attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Taken, Thinking, Skills

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

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• The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Long, Way

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• One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Country, Wall

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• Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

  Elsa Barker

  Yield, Meditation, Soul

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

  Roger Zelazny

  Song, Book, Fire

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Loyalty, Commitment, Religion

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.12, Macmillan

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• When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Buddhism, Doors

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• In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wise, Journey, Hiking

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Joy

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• You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Romantic, World, Made

  Song: Plenty, Album: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

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• Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Hate, Love You

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• It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that I began to hear God's voice.

  Eileen Caddy

  God, Voice, Inner Peace

  Eileen Caddy (2017). “God Spoke to Me”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Green World

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• Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Profound

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