Sign in Sign up

Stillness Quotes

"Keeping still is how the stars convey their light"

"The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly"

"When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence."

"It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself"

"Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits"

"I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent, and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you "

"In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form."

"You do not need to leave your room Remain sitting at your table and listen Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet"

"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope"

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

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen—that stillness becomes a radiance"

"The most profound wisdom often comes in silence"

"Silence? What can be better than to sit thus by the hour and be soothed with the world"

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you"

"You are like the night, with its stillness and constellations"