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Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When a turbulent mind and wounded heart surrenders to grace, breathing is easy. — T.F. Hodge

Obscure as muddied water. But, with stillness, muddy waters clear. Can you also act while remaining still? — Lao-Tzu

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind. — Sakyong Mipham

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash. — Jasper Fforde

When you enter a place of stillness, you awaken the divinity within you. — Peggy Sealfon

Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal. — Laozi

Stillness is the altar of spirit. — Paramahansa Yogananda

BEAUTY ARISES IN THE STILLNESS OF YOUR PRESENCE — Eckhart Tolle

Sydney didn't trust stillness. She had come to believe that it was a bad thing. A wrong, unnatural, dead thing. — V.E Schwab

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall. — Carson McCullers

She was the roar and the whisper and the stillness. She was nothing. She was everything. — Heather Demetrios

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. — Ramana Maharshi

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness. — Russell Simmons

He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant. — Len Jenkin

All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind. — Eckhart Tolle

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The stillness of the water, the horizon framed by other glass towers and miniature boats drifting in the distance. — Emily St. John Mandel

The haunted always take refuge in stillness. — Christina Dodd

In our stillness, we acknowledge God's greatness and we are at peace in our life. Stillness saturates us in the Presence of God. — E'yen A. Gardner

Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away. — Nikki Rowe

Who acts in stillness finds stillness in his life. — Lao-Tzu

I crave stillness,
And yet I fear the moment
Stillness turns into boredom,
And the moment boredom
Turns into loneliness. — Chris Mc Geown

Seek out a tree, and let it teach you stillness. — Eckhart Tolle

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven. — Lao-Tzu

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe. — Mervyn Peake

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti — Shavasti

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity. — Laozi

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move. — Iris Murdoch

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond
measure. — Bede Griffiths

I hide away in stillness, and the world spins on. I have wasted much. — Sere Prince Halverson

I began to understand that when a woman was looking at the sky, she wasn't looking for anything. She was just being still. — A Que

I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk. — Jane Roberts

stillness that comes with snowfall — R.J. Gould

This story has no point but stillness itself... — Larry Levis

Sincere heart, quiet soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life. — Debasish Mridha

But stillness was the sleep of swords. — Zora Neale Hurston

You were the thing
worth photographing,
the stillness
that begged
for a matte finish
and far off stare. — Tyler Knott Gregson

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. — Dag Hammarskjold

Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness. — Adyashanti

Stillness does not mean the absence of sounds, not at all, but rather the tranquillity that allows one to perceive quiet, soft and distant sounds. — Nihad Sirees

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Sometimes God remains silent to see if we'll remain faithful. The stillness exposed our intentions. — Alisa Hope Wagner

I said to my soul
be still
and
wait
so the darkness
shall be the
light
and the stillness
the
dancing. — T. S. Eliot

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. — Shannon Hale

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. — Mark Rothko

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. — John Dryden

It is in the stillness of our own self that we can learn those things that escape us in the noise of the market place... — Ainslie Meares

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

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet. — Gillian Anderson

The most powerful forces in the universe are infinite. Love, imagination, intuition, stillness. Then why should we define our soul? — Matthew Donnelly

Her stillness defeated his storm. — Chris Gardner

But we escaped into a stillness within ourselves. We found strenght there. — Ruta Sepetys

Where, twisted round the barren oak,
The summer vine in beauty clung,
And summer winds the stillness broke,
The crystal icicle is hung. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind. — Marty Rubin

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down. — Gianna Beretta Molla

It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet — Dodie Smith

It seems easier for her to just close the doors and not think about the stillness of the rooms behind them. — Colleen Hoover

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? — Claude Debussy

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement. — Bruce Lee

All that moves exhausts itself eventually. Only that which is still is for always. — Sadghuru

Transition isn't pretty, but stagnation is hideous. — Nikki Rowe

He seemed placid to me on the platform, but something about that stillness makes me wary now. — Veronica Roth

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky. — Kathy Hepinstall

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

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor. — David Gilmour

Through our consciousness, we can enter the stillness of silence and become blessed with the universal presence of peace. — Georgi Y. Johnson

In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world. — Katrina Kenison

Riding that ridge between reason and recklessness, stillness and speed, is the first, maybe the most important, thing I learned about motorcycles. — Lily Brooks-Dalton

There's serenity in the stillness of the water and my body absorbs it through my pours, desperate to find its peace. — Vi Keeland

The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action. — Sun Bu'er

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night. — James F. Cooper

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me. — Adam Baldwin

Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet. — Mooji

The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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. — Melissa Etheridge

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. — D.H. Lawrence

I felt the distance and stillness of that sprawled dawn like some endless sky waking inside me, flared against the laughter. — Don DeLillo

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness. — V.S. Pritchett

Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself. — Hermann Hesse

Find stillness
and you will hear the sound of the universe.
Step out of time and into the realm where creativity is possible. — Melissa Rae

Lonely stillness - a single cicada's cry sinking into stone — Basho Matsuo

that of the mind is in abysmal stillness; — Lao-Tzu

Feel your emotions,
Live true your passions,
Keep still your mind. — Geoffrey M. Gluckman

The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind. — Ajahn Brahm

Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords. — Zora Neale Hurston

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

Dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness. — Gustav Landauer

I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy. — Claire Morgan

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe. — Eckhart Tolle

There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered. — Garth Risk Hallberg

A Baby Sermon-
The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home — George MacDonald

When you're in the zone of your purpose with passion ... time stands still. — T.F. Hodge

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. — Gonjasufi

What I did at the memorial, was listen.
To the laughter and the tears, and to the quiet stillness that followed. — Nathan Filer

Chasing something external to satisfy the internal is a hollow practice. The only thing you can chase is yourself and you are already here! — Tresh An