Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.
The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.
Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness!
The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.
In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.
Clarity is often found in stillness.
I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.
There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.
And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.
Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.