Stillness Quotes

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.

True power is stillness within motion.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

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

Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

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

Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.

When you're brave enough to let go of anything you don't absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.

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

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

Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.

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.

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

I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.

Stillness is easy to maintain.

Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

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.

Clarity is often found in stillness.

The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.

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

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

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

Stillness is training for action.

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.

Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability.

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.