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• Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

  Paul Brunton

  Perseverance, Healing, Heart

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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• But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, Lovely, Doe

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.181, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Opposites, Perfect, Bed

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2009). “Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir”, p.27, Counterpoint

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• Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

  William Stafford

  Hurt, Hate, Mistake

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.19, Macmillan

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• There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

  Carson McCullers

  Fall, Night, Firsts

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Morning, Pain, Sadness

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.158, Macmillan

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• There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Clouds, Sea

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.845, Delphi Classics

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• Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day — while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

  Alan Moore

  Tired, Here I Am, People

  "Fictional character: Dr. Manhattan". "Watchmen", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Rin slept inside the oak’s thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself.

  Shannon Hale

  Memories, Weather, Growth

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.110, A&C Black

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• The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.

  Margaret Haddix

  Mother, Father, Silence

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

  Deb Caletti

  Blue, Numbness, Worry

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• In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.

  Douglas Adams

  Clear, Throat

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

  John Henry Newman

  Spiritual, Peace, Garden

  John Henry Newman (2002). “Prayers, Verses, and Devotions”, p.127, Ignatius Press

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• In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander. What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your own limitless Being, waving back at you?

  Ken Wilber

  Night, Sky, Play

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.
  The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.

  Pico Iyer

  Rain, Sleep, Autumn

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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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• It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Moving, Wind

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 03, 2015

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• Stillness is the altar of spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spirit, Altars

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• True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Creativity, Mind

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