298 Quotes About Stillness

I think there is a difference between aloneness and loneliness. Aloneness is necessary for the soul to thrive - even to come alive. Not loneliness.

At any point in time – it is the state of your attention that defines your level of existence as human beings.In your waking state – Flowing Attention trapped in thoughts make you a private person.In your sleeping state – Still Attention free from thoughts make you an universal perceiver.In your natural state – Absolute Attention as it is naturally returns to its source and make you the peaceful pure presence.However in reality – only supreme source exists in all the above mentioned states.

Your natural self has no beginning - no end,Remember running mind is enemy - still mind is friend.

There’s something demanding about the stillness of the night; as if it knows our need for rest and demands that we have it. And if I impale the stillness with the incessant noise and raucous clamor of a mind ever ill at rest and in doing so I refuse to let the night bring what it does, the night will remain still but my soul will not.

Sometimes you just have to turn off the lights, sit in the dark, and see what happens inside of you.

Why are we afraid of the silence that ensues after our death? Wasn’t it the same silence we endured before birth? Isn’t it the same silence we revel in when we are completely immersed in the present moment? Let us not be afraid.

Love is stillnessquaked only by theleaves' cascading pirouettes.

Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past.

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.