Stillness Quotes - Page 5

• The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Writing, Decision, Scary

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• Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sweet, Rivers

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• We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Animal, Water, Community

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Reality, Want, Faces

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• Choosing stillness in the midst of chaos is the path toward living in peace.

  Deepak Chopra

  Path, Chaos, Midst

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• Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Order, Space, Silence

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.6, New World Library

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• Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, “It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Cutting, Men

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Novels and Stories, 1932-1937”

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• Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

  Satish Kumar

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Dark, Light

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Essence, Knowing

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• Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Body, Tranquility

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

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• Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

  Laozi

  Law, Giving, Heaven

  Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.45, Booklassic

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• Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.

  Louis L'Amour

  Love Is, Years, Pieces

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• Stillness is training for action.

  Andrew Cohen

  Training, Action

  Andrew Cohen (2012). “Evolutionary Enlightenment”, p.57, Jaico Publishing House

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• It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

  Jean Klein

  Taken, Silence, Listening

  Jean Klein (2006). “Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest”, p.92, New Harbinger Publications

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• The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of stillness at which they can perceive these most beautiful realms of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Light

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• The Divine flow that wants to move through me requires stillness.

  Frank Baron

  Moving, Silence, Want

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• We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

  Leonora Carrington

  Moving, Garden, Light

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  Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Love, Motor Racing, Car

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• For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.

  Betty Eadie

  Heart, Way, Enlightening

  Betty J. Eadie (1997). “The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Mind, Way

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

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• Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Mind, Trying

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.16, New World Library

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• Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

  Maria Popova

  Motivational, Order, Ideas

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• The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Destiny, Roots

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• I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sky, Steel, World

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.120, Penguin

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