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Stillness Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
- The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make…
- You see more sitting still than chasing after.
- 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.
More Stillness Quotes
- 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — 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… — 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… — Eckhart Tolle
- Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going,… — Huineng
- The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during 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… — 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… — Zhuangzi
- Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the… — John Burroughs
- In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj