Stillness Quotes - Page 7

• When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Keys, Desire

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.91, New World Library

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• If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become
  one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen.
  If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Creative, Action

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.47, Penguin

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• The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Mean, Science, Air

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Kameshwar C. Wali (2001). “A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar : with Commentary”, p.1286, World Scientific

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• You see more sitting still than chasing after.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Sitting Still, Chasing, Stills

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• There is something about TM. It is the only time
  I have that stillness... It gives me this peaceful
  feeling-I just love it so much.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Giving, Peaceful, Feelings

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• I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

  Sarah Paulson

  Reactions, Immediacy, Audience

  Interview with Julianne Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. Interview with Julianne Moore.

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• The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Bible, Home, Biblical

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• With stillness comes the benediction of peace”.
  “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.  Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.  This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Thinking, Events

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• Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

  Meister Eckhart

  Creativity, Found, Solutions

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• The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Mind, Movement, Benefits

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.20, Harmony

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• On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

  Gangaji

  Accepting, Capacity, Invitations

  Gangaji (2008). “The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance: Easy Read Comfort Edition”, p.210, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Dream, Prayer, Sleep

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• There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

  Guy Finley

  Silence, Solitude, Secret

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Dec 16, 2016

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• Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, Mind, Enlightenment

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• What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

  Edward Abbey

  Freedom, Rights, Discovery

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• Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Simple, World, Common

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

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• I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Beautiful, Two, Perception

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• There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change There was a strange stillness The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.

  Rachel Carson

  Morning, Spring, Heart

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• When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Peace, Ocean, Wind

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1855). “Tales and Sketches of New England Life: Comprising "The Mayflower," and Other Miscellaneous Writings”, p.325

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• The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and that's to be in the garden of the heart, in the perfect stillness, where the white light of eternity meets the white light of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Spiritual, Heart

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• The stillness of God is perfect. Nothing has to be added to it. Nothing can be taken away.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Taken, Perfect

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• When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Silence, Mind

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