Stillness Quotes - Page 14

• Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.

  Russell Simmons

  Laughing, Quiet, Moments

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

  Mirabel Osler

  Winter, Green, Facts

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• I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.

  Gonjasufi

  People, Found, Ability

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Silence, Missing, Solitude

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• Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

  Pam Houston

  Moving, Attention, Imagine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

  Gianna Beretta Molla

  Prayer, Essentials, Action

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• The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Faults, Absence

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality”, Library of Alexandria

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• The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.

  Bhagat Singh

  Dream, Heart, Mean

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Needs, Sometimes

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• Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Lakes, Owl

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.677, e-artnow

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• And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain- the skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water.

  Dana Gioia

  Summer, Hate, Rain

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.35, Macmillan

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• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sleep, Angel

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54

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• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Art, Flower, Fall

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• Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

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• I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mom, Order, Years

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• There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

  John Henry Newman

  Struggle, Passion, Sky

  John Henry Newman, Albert Redcliffe (2002). “Selected Writings to 1845”, p.87, Taylor & Francis

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• Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean? If you want to see an ocean without waves you only have to dive deeper. When you dive deep inside you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it is all frozen that is enlightenment.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Ocean, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.

  Laura Moriarty

  Children, Growing Up, Swings

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• I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

  Jane Roberts

  Block, Sidewalk, Secure

  Jane Roberts (2013). “The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two: A Seth Book in Two Volumes”, p.477, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.

  Kat Duff

  Practice, Cocoons, Isolation

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• I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.

  Lauryn Hill

  Jamaica, Six Months, Months

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• The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Feelings, Landscape, Restless

  Peter Matthiessen (2010). “The Tree Where Man Was Born”, p.201, Penguin

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• To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all became about her gaze and the way she takes you in. It's a rhythmic thing and a stillness thing to consider but these are little details, little nuances. We were invited to the sanctity of her home and there were roosters running around and she's screaming, "Jackie, be quiet!" Even though she's in the middle of the thing. And these are the details that we wanted to incorporate into our story.

  Vera Farmiga

  Running, Home, Stories

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview by Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Focus on stillness, rather than on movement

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Focus, Movement

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• You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. And when you find God it will be in stillness. You will find God within.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Attachment, Self, Law

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.29, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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