Stillness Within Quotes

#1. One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long time without biting and then went away.

Jack Kerouac

#2. But stillness was the sleep of swords.

Zora Neale Hurston

#3. The calm was absolute, a dead, flat calm, the stillness of a dead sea and of a dead atmosphere.

Joseph Conrad

#4. Attain complete emptiness,
Hold fast to stillness.
Understanding the ordinary:
Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion,
Compassion to nobility,
Nobility to heavenliness,
Heavenliness to TAO.
TAO endures.
Your body dies.
There is no danger.

Lao-Tzu

#5. After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

Frederick Lenz

#6. So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.

Zhuangzi

#7. Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

Karl Rahner

#8. I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the airspace over the 'black' box, a kind of momentary hesitation, a protest of stillness, a staring into the abyss of everything I did not know about myself. She, like me, was made of halves.

Olivia Sudjic

#9. The greatest revelation is stillness.

Laozi

#10. Only your surface is disturbed; in your deepness there is stillness and total tranquility.

Bryant McGill

#11. I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

Kenneth Branagh

#12. Something inside you emerges ... an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

Elisabeth Elliot

#14. 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

#15. Seek out a tree, and let it teach you stillness.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. {In the shadows where the ancestors sleep, the bird's song is young, but all else is old. Stillness surrounds me and I breathe softly expecting the unexpected.} from book in progress

Nancy B. Brewer

#17. If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

A.R. Ammons

#18. Ann, I know it's hard to understand, but in that wonderful stillness, life becomes a dream and God becomes real.

Joseph Rector

#19. Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.

Huineng

#20. The stillness of the water, the horizon framed by other glass towers and miniature boats drifting in the distance.

Emily St. John Mandel

#21. There is a stillness that accompanies the death of a loved one. Everything becomes quieter, but it's not just sound that is dimmed. Movement, action, perception, emotion - everything is distant and removed. Maybe

Penny Reid

#22. The scarcely audible whisper of soft airs through the trees morning and evening, rain drops falling gently, and the murmur of drowsy surges far below, alone break the stillness.

Isabella L. Bird

#23. There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

Pedro Almodovar

#24. Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have our pleasure o'er again,
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.

Joanna Baillie

#25. What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

Gangaji

#26. However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

Michael Foley

#27. When a turbulent mind and wounded heart surrenders to grace, breathing is easy.

T.F. Hodge

#28. What I did at the memorial, was listen.
To the laughter and the tears, and to the quiet stillness that followed.

Nathan Filer

#29. Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness.

Tiphanie Yanique

#30. Still is just the right way to be. You rise in the morning to go about your day. You remember a friend who has troubles. You don't quibble with yourself about whether to call her; you don't write a reminder on your Palm Pilot or in your planner to make the call tomorrow. You just call. Simple.

C. Terry Warner

#31. It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one's hearing to it.
...
The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.

Haruki Murakami

#32. Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

Jaggi Vasudev

#33. The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

William James

#34. A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that his entire life was about to change if he didn't get out of there, now. Away from the unexpected, undeniable lure of the dowdy young woman in front of him.

Anne Stuart

#35. Words created the future, exacerbated problems, raised barriers between them. But in the silence of Ford's sleep, Ford could love Dan easily; in the stillness of Ford's rest, Dan could adore him without question or fear.

Jim Grimsley

#36. Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

Jack Kornfield

#37. You've taught me a great deal about stillness.

Joey W. Hill

#38. Until the fear of separation is faced there can be only a life of illusion, where nothing real can exist. Until this happens there can be no knowing the stillness of peace, which is to change, in the very near future, for all humanity. The illusion of separateness can not continue to exist.

Donna Guillemette

#39. Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

Pam Houston

#40. True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

Eckhart Tolle

#41. To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle

#42. Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions ... as soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.

Jacqueline Winspear

#43. the room grew unnaturally quiet. Kote stood with his back to the room, a stillness in his body and a terrible silence clenched between his teeth.

Patrick Rothfuss

#44. The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

P.G. Wodehouse

#45. The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

Laozi

#46. When there's somebody there who is transparent enough so that the stillness comes through unhindered, there's a reciprocal movement in you because the presence of stillness suddenly recognizes itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#47. There is but a gentle stillness inside every cerebral. Tiny waterfalls of blood vessels rushing, becoming lethal.

Justin Bienvenue

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

Donald L. Hicks

#49. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

Eckhart Tolle

#50. The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

Thomas Carlyle

#51. To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.

Alberto Villoldo

#52. I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

Tatiana Maslany

#53. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being. It

Eckhart Tolle

#54. That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space ... it is also within you.

Eckhart Tolle

#55. The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action.

Sun Bu'er

#56. I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that sullen stillness, not even a star. The emptiness above was now mine within. It was a part of me, like a freckle, like a bruise. Like a middle name now one acknowledged.

Sarah Winman

#57. Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond
measure.

Bede Griffiths

#58. When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself

Lao-Tzu

#59. In that slowly descending darkness as the moon ascended and a gentle breeze blew, I found myself enveloped in that stillness and a strange sort of bliss. I let lay the existential dilemmas somewhere within me for the moment and allowed myself to be immersed in that beyond. Next

G S Subbu

#60. Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

Hakuin Ekaku

#61. Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.

Hermann Hesse

#62. No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

Laozi

#63. 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.

Katina Makris

#64. To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.

Frederick Lenz

#65. But we escaped into a stillness within ourselves. We found strenght there.

Ruta Sepetys

#66. True power is stillness within motion.

Laozi

#67. Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else, and within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself, just as I can. Few people have that capacity and yet everyone could have it.

Hermann Hesse

#68. Within you is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. - Hermann Hesse

Steve Martin

#69. Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.

Eckhart Tolle

#70. When we invoke stillness within our consciousness, we have the power to recover the child we forgot that we once were.

Daniel St. Clair

#71. Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

Eckhart Tolle

#72. Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

Paul Brunton

#73. You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. And when you find God it will be in stillness. You will find God within.

Peace Pilgrim

#74. When you enter a place of stillness, you awaken the divinity within you.

Peggy Sealfon

#75. We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

Dag Hammarskjold

#76. There is a stillness about the past, a clarity, the way it had been somewhat defined and dissected, in the rearview mirror; it was there for the taking, for the mining.

Carrie Brownstein