298 Quotes About Stillness

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

Be still.

It's okay that I got sick, I suddenly realize. If Lyme hadn't taken me down so radically, I wouldn't have learned about stillness. I would not have discovered my enormous capacity to endure. I would have not have embraced this deeply contemplative place within my own being.

The most powerful forces in the universe are infinite. Love, imagination, intuition, stillness. Then why should we define our soul?

No matter what kind of circumstances come together, if one’s stillness is not shaken and his goal does not change; he is known to have attained religion.

There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.

Too many words cause exhaustion[In the mind or from the mouth]Better to abide in stillness

Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature.Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God.

So loveliness reigned and stillness, and together made the shape of loveliness itself, a form from which life had parted; solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen.