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Stillness Quotes by Laozi
- No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and…
- Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.
- Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?
- Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
- Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.
- Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal.
- Stillness is the ruler of haste.
- Stillness overcomes heat.
- Stillness is easy to maintain.
- The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.
- 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…
- Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity
- Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.
- Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.
- Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
- Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just,…
- The greatest revelation is stillness.
- Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is…
More Stillness Quotes
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- 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