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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.
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.
We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.
Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.
The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
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.
Rin slept inside the oak’s thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself.
Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
The stillness of God is perfect. Nothing has to be added to it. Nothing can be taken away.
I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.
Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.
From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.
For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.
Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.
The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.
I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness.
One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.
Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.
It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.
The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.
But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.
Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.
I've played a lot of these characters that aren't particularly pleasant and pretty powerful, bad people, and one thing I've discovered is that there's a real stillness to these guys.
"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability.
Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.
There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.
Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
You can do anything. You can perform miracles, but it won't fulfill you. What will fulfill you is the stillness of eternity.
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.
Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.
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.
Activity conquers coldness. Stillness conquers heat.
Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.
There is something about TM. It is the only time
I have that stillness... It gives me this peaceful
feeling-I just love it so much.
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.
In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.
It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.
Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.
I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.
Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.
Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.
Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.
Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.
Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?
Kaz's art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind.
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
