298 Quotes About Stillness

Why do I walk? I walk because I like it. I like the rhythm of it, my shadow always a little ahead of me on the pavement. I like being able to stop when I like, to lean against a building and make a note in my journal, or read an email, or send a text message, and for the world to stop while I do it. Walking, paradoxically, allows for the possibility of stillness.

Mindfulness makes a year feel like a decade, whereas mindlessness does the opposite.

Mindlessness often leads to headlessness.

Movement is the illusion created by the extremely fast, involuntary comparison of what is with what was.

God speaks in stillness.

In stillness, the soft voice spoke.

When the mind is still it allows you to step back and let ego thoughts pass-through.

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

First you recognize stillness, then you are it. You feel yourself as autonomous, that is, not identified with what is all around you. And now true relation is possible.