Stillness Quotes

383 Stillness quotes by 227 unique authors

All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my… — Frederick Lenz
Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you,… — Frederick Lenz
When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things… — Frederick Lenz
What will really release the kundalini is creating a stillness in your life. This stillness will come about through deep caring and introspection. It will… — Frederick Lenz
In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite… — John Burroughs
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… — Anne Enright
True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an… — Eckhart Tolle
You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before. — Sarah McLachlan
The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good… — Eckhart Tolle
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I arise to day... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home of Belonging, /… — John O'Donohue
Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of… — Shantideva
Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds… — Kathleen McDonald
We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state. — Frederick Lenz
You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in… — Frederick Lenz
Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the… — Frederick Lenz
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm. — Saul Bellow
You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and… — William Stafford
True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence… — Eckhart Tolle
What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude,… — Edward Abbey
Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to… — Pico Iyer
What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness. — David Steindl-Rast

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