Stillness Quotes

383 Stillness quotes by 227 unique authors

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude? — Elisabeth Elliot
Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. — Erich Schiffmann
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence,… — Adyashanti
Clarity is often found in stillness. — Christie Golden
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… — Jonathan Franzen
God divides the stillness of His omnipresent Oneness into mated pairs, and simultaneously multiplies their power to simulate His omnipotence and omniscience through fast centripetal… — Walter Russell
Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in… — Ken Cohen
The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing. — Seungsahn
Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead. — Erik Larson
The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness. — Sakyong Mipham
There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the… — August Kleinzahler
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose,… — Robert Kennedy
There’s a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness. — Doreen Virtue
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature… — Eckhart Tolle
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness. — Eckhart Tolle
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of… — Eckhart Tolle
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached,… — Gangaji
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. — A. R. Ammons
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. — John Henry Newman
In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts… — Ken Wilber
You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is… — Joel Meyerowitz
Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles? — Laozi
Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself. — Laozi
Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness. — Laozi

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