Stillness Quotes

383 quotes by 230 authors

'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second,… — Geraldine Brooks
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. — Deepak Chopra
It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are. — Wei Wu Wei
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,… — Thomas Carlyle
Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been… — Eckhart Tolle
Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments… — Huineng
The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the bustle of the… — Rosemary Verey
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your… — Eckhart Tolle
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. — John Dryden
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he… — Zhuangzi
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour… — John Burroughs
In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to… — Jack Kornfield
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual… — Eckhart Tolle
Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become… — Eckhart Tolle
In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our… — Jean Klein
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind… — Rajneesh
Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world… — Rick Bass
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity… — Hakuin Ekaku

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