Stillness Quotes - Page 8

• Avoid the things in your life that take away from your stillness. Find things that add to that stillness. Bring them more into your life. It doesn't matter what works or doesn't. It is all individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Add, Matter, Gaining Power

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• Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Profound

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• Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Green World

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• Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Ocean, Buddhism

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• Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Art, Flower

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• The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Artist, Creative, Survival

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.24, New World Library

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• A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

  Roger Zelazny

  Song, Book, Fire

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

  Douglas Lockwood

  Thinking, Fog, Mystery

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• In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.

  Rumi

  Order, Stills

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• Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy

  Margaret Silf

  Meditation, Joy

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• If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Cities, Curiosity, Mirth

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• Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

  Ellis Peters

  Home, Circles, Half

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3066, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Crazy, Buddhism, Perfect

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• It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, Buddhism, Weekend

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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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• Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Reality

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• I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Moving, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Currents of energy shimmer through our bodies. Like shooting stars, we rocket through spacious stillness. But this silent, unmoving background is nothing like the granite ideas we use trying to take root in groundless soil.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Stars, Ideas, Roots

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• O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Law, Instruments, Abandon

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Cities, Empty Life

  "Saroyan's Literary Quarantine" by Peter H. King, in The Los Angeles Times, March 26, 1997.

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• You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Real, Buddhism

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• All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Feelings

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• What will really release the kundalini is creating a stillness in your life. This stillness will come about through deep caring and introspection. It will come about slowly and then quickly - it builds momentum.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Caring, Creating

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• The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ignorance, Ideas, Silence

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.129, Faber & Faber

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• Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. ... those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Heart, Men, Greed

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.331, Macmillan

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