Stillness Quotes - Page 15

• I feel like the stillness of Ralph Angel - him being formerly incarcerated, being a Black man, being misunderstood in this world, I felt like that brought him to a place where he thought he had to be an observer - externally and internally.

  Kofi Siriboe

  Angel, Men, Black

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

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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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• Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night.

  John Burroughs

  Heart, Night, Self

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.222, Syracuse University Press

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• As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Practice, Meditation, Able

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 09, 2011

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• There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ideas, Infinity, Movement

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.364, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

  Georg Trakl

  Angel, Forgotten, Recalls

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• I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

  Gillian Anderson

  Real, Stopping, Quiet

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• One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

  Joel Edgerton

  Moving, Silence, Actors

  "All the right moves" by Greg Callaghan, www.theaustralian.com.au. April 21, 2012.

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• Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

  Susan Howe

  Differences

  Susan Howe (2010). “That This”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.

  Katrina Kenison

  Home, Knowing, World

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• I wait.  Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight.  I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness.  Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Loneliness, Night

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.15, University of Arizona Press

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• 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 everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive.

  Ken Cohen

  Qigong, Everyday, Balance

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• Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

  Erik Larson

  Hands, Hung

  Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.386, Random House

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• 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 shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.

  August Kleinzahler

  Moving, Loss, Motherhood

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• All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.

  Robert Kennedy

  Gratitude, Home, Voice

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• There’s a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness.

  Doreen Virtue

  Perfect, Retreat, Enjoy

  Doreen Virtue (2008). “Daily Guidance from Your Angels”, p.145, Hay House, Inc

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• 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, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine. ... to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Simple, Intuition, Analysis

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Silence, Noise

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.4, New World Library

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• The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

  Willa Cather

  Running, Silence, Emptiness

  Willa Cather (1998). “Obscure Destinies”, p.29, U of Nebraska Press

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• If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Lonely, Perfect, Warfare

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• When you're brave enough to let go of anything you don't absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Letting Go, Space, Brave

  Cheryl Richardson (2012). “21 Days to Master Extreme Self-Care”, p.62, Hay House, Inc

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• I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair, the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace it's perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon.

  Geneen Roth

  Beautiful, Country, Children

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from May 23, 2014

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• However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

  Michael Foley

  Believe, Silence, Solitude

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

  Laozi

  Knowing, Way, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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