Stillness Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Flower, Air, Bird

  Chogyam Trungpa (2001). “First Thought Best Thought”, p.37, Shambhala Publications

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• Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Errors, Dwelling

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• In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Sunset, Autumn

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• All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.

  Rumi

  Desire, Poison, Heal

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• I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Achievement, Chaos

  In George Plimpton 'Writers at Work' (1967) 3rd series, p. 190

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• Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Laughter, Pain, Heart

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1911). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.148, Jester House Publishing

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• Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Way, Wonderful, Music Is

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• Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

  Eileen Caddy

  Empty Vessels, Tears, Flow

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• If you try to grasp Zen in movement, it goes into stillness. If you try to grasp Zen in stillness, it goes into movement. It is like a fish hidden in a spring, drumming up waves and dancing independently.

  Linji Yixuan

  Spring, Dancing, Trying

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• When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Tree, Add

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.84, New World Library

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• The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Pain, Heart, Loss

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.294, Delphi Classics

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• We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

  Russell Simmons

  Miracle, Life Is, Unfolding

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Jan 30, 2012

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• A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.

  Kate Elliott

  Men, Thinking, Riding

  Kate Elliott (2009). “Traitors' Gate”, p.182, Macmillan

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• At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.

  Manu Joseph

  Memories, Heart

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• If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Taken, Missing, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.94, New World Library

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• In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Lakes, Mountain, Depth

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.439, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Build pockets of stillness into your life.

  Maria Popova

  Entrepreneur, Pockets

  "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living". www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.

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