Stillness Quotes - Page 11

• I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

  Edward Kennedy

  Morning, Fall, Winter

  Esquire: The Meaning of Life, (p. 81), 2009.

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• A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

  Roger Zelazny

  Song, Book, Fire

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

  Douglas Lockwood

  Thinking, Fog, Mystery

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• There are different worlds, endless worlds, and different beings come from different worlds. In my particular case, I come from the stillness. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. I know it quite well.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Light

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• My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, and remember who you are. A place, with others of like mind, to find and lose yourself in the transcendental light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Mind

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• Avoid the things in your life that take away from your stillness. Find things that add to that stillness. Bring them more into your life. It doesn't matter what works or doesn't. It is all individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Add, Matter, Gaining Power

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• I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Beautiful, Inner Peace, Trying

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• There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

  Mervyn Peake

  Air, Silence, Scythes

  Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.110, The Overlook Press

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• As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it.

  Sylvia Plath

  White, Bed, Ceilings

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.18, Hamilton Books

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• Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Mind

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• The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Roots, Mind

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• From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.

  Rod Stryker

  Powerful, Yoga, Destiny

  "The 6-Point Method for Breaking Unhealthy Habits" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Education, Teacher

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1790.

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• What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no 'I thought'. That is called 'Stillness'. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mother, Spiritual, Self

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• 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 called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Roots, Knowing

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• To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spiritual, Simple, Firsts

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Oneness, Tree, Looks

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.5, New World Library

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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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• When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze, with the smallest ripple in the waters, the lake reflects nothing but itself. To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness. The slightest breeze of judgment or interpretation from the rational mind will create a ripple that shatters Awareness and returns us to ordinary perception.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Lakes, Objectivity, Sky

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• There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Hair, Mysterious, Intimacy

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• If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Vitality, Alertness, Consciousness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.19, New World Library

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