48 Quotes About Stillness-of-the-mind

Settle down nighttime.Cast away arduous thoughtsPeace belongs to you.

Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.

The only true paradise is the paradise of presence.

To know your mind,you need a little distance.You need to be a step or two awayand be able to noticewhat your mind is doing without being so lost or involved in itthat you can’t see it.It’s like trying to see your eyes.If you want to see yourself,you need to create some space,you need a mirror.Stillness, mindfulness, meditation:these are the mirrors.

Stillness is the most powerful virtue against all odds in life.

I began to understand that when a woman was looking at the sky, she wasn't looking for anything. She was just being still.

All that moves exhausts itself eventually. Only that which is still is for always.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

When have you paused to let life in? When have you stopped scrambling to produce more social media content, stopped scrambling as though in a race to be unforgotten? Where are your pauses? Where are the spaces in your life where you let the light in? Where is your stillness? You are afraid of being forgotten, so, you scramble to impress yourself onto everything, everywhere... but what has been impressed into you?