Stillness Quotes - Page 11

• If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Cities, Curiosity, Mirth

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• Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy

  Margaret Silf

  Meditation, Joy

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• The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Artist, Creative, Survival

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.24, New World Library

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• ...the haunted always take refuge in stillness.

  Christina Dodd

  Refuge

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• Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Running, Laughter

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• Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Peace, Action, Accomplished

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.178, Penguin

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• Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.

  Jim Elliot

  Moving, Wind, Sound

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• The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Teaching, Favorite Places, My Favorite

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• The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Lost, Arise

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• It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Labels, World

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Teaching, Favorite Places, Needs

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• When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Mind, Depth

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• Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moving, Phones, Rushing

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Ocean, Mind, Depth

  Kathleen McDonald (2011). “How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Two, Space, Silence

  Eckhart Tolle (2004). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.139, New World Library

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• 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 motion. He then unites His mated pairs to simulate His Oneness, and simultaneously multiplies their speed of centrifugal motion until they disappear into His omnipresent stillness.

  Walter Russell

  Omnipotence, Oneness, Balance

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• Clarity is often found in stillness.

  Christie Golden

  Clarity, Found

  Christie Golden (2012). “World of Warcraft: Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness. There's a vast stillness and there's a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn't separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ocean, Perception, Mind

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• The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

  H. G. Wells

  Blow, Men, Air

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.3987, e-artnow

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• Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Silence, Adore, Eucharist

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States”, p.84, Ignatius Press

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• Healing happens between the notes. I had to allow the space and not be afraid, and to know that things happen in space. You have to let the space settle. If you let go, you transcend and experience the stillness, and that is the healing. One ingredient of health is rest. Activity comes from inactivity. The basis of sound is silence. Stillness is basic to health.

  Paul Horn

  Letting Go, Healing, Space

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• The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

  Laozi

  Lying, Water, Mystery

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• The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

  Russell Simmons

  Silence, Poet, Conscious

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• Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

  Russell Simmons

  Art, Noise, Form

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• I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I'm reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That's what I'd like to do.

  Ben Kingsley

  Exercise, Focus, Cameras

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

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