Stillness Quotes

When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.

True power is stillness within motion.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.

The greatest revelation is stillness.

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

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.

Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.

Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

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. But true listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person's attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts.

Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.

I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.

You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.

Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.

Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.

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.

Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.

Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Silence is a source of great strenght.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

Real action is in silent moments.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

Stillness is easy to maintain.

Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

Stillness overcomes heat.

Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.

Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.

Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.