Stillness Quotes - Page 21

• If We Sit With An Increasing Stillness Of The BodyThe Mind Gradually Stills And The Heart Is Filled With Quiet Joy

  Ravi Ravindra

  Heart, Joy, Mind

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• To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Objectivity, Firsts, Clarity

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Nov 19, 2014

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• Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness of soul. The enemy strives to destroy the peace of the soul, because he knows that when the soul is in turmoil it is more easily led to evil. But you must guard your peace.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Evil, Inner Peace

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• Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

  Eileen Caddy

  Happiness, Perfect, Meditation

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• Where, twisted round the barren oak,
  The summer vine in beauty clung,
  And summer winds the stillness broke,
  The crystal icicle is hung.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.8

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• feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Passing, Feels, Eternal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.89, Stanford University Press

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• The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Mind, Remember

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

  Kathleen Norris

  Dying, Desert, Faces

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Daughter, Prayer, Issues

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.12

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• When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.

  Jack London

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.17, Wordsworth Editions

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• From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.

  Martha Beck

  Commitment, Acceptance, Eating

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• At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

  Henry Miller

  Giving Up, Heart, World

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Sweet, Heart, Sunset

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Toms Cabin: Life Among the Lowly: Easyread Large Edition”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

  T. S. Eliot

  Moving, Silence, Speech

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.157, Faber & Faber

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• Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation. (161)

  David Wroblewski

  Light, Order, Optimism

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• I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

  Dodie Smith

  Restlessness

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.270, St. Martin's Griffin

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• in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Meditation, Feelings

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• Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Years, Space

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Real, Moving, Connections

  Joel Meyerowitz (1990). “Creating a sense of place”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

  Laozi

  Waiting, Taoism, Mud

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• Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Emptiness, Steadfast

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• Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.

  Helen Humphreys

  Memories, Light, Space

  Helen Humphreys (2006). “Wild Dogs: A Novel”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all that is possible is present at the very beginning. This experience of stillness is possible in the first ten minutes of your first yoga class. It is possible in this very breath.

  Donna Farhi

  Yoga, Mean, Class

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

  Darren Main

  Time, Focus, Meditation

  Darren Main (2003). “Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition”, p.14, BookBaby

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• How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Running, Fall, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.413

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