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41 Quotes About Stillness

List of 41 quotes about stillness:

#1 “Learn to observe your emotions without needing to act or distract yourself from them. Within that stillness, your truest most vulnerable thoughts will arise and it is these thoughts that will show you where your healing work must begin.” – Alaric Hutchinson

#2 “I keep forgetting how important it is to just be still sometimes. Without a phone, or a TV, or a friend. Alone. Quiet. Connected to nothing, and everything, all at once. Undistracted” – Scott Stabile

#3 ”For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit.” – Kilroy J. Oldster

#4 “Stillness is where the answers to many of our questions come from.” – Christine Comaford

#5 How can we tune into what is going on outside of ourselves, if it is drowned out by what is going on inside of ourselves? Find your stillness, find your calm, and listen.” – Akiroq Brost

#6 “Spend time in silence. Take time to get to know yourself and your genius in stillness.” – Jewel

#7 “In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life.” – Debasish Mridha

#8 “Stillness is the most powerful virtue against all odds in life.” – Aditya Ajmera

#9 “Look at a tree, a plant. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” – Eckhart Tolle

#10 “There’s something demanding about the stillness of the night; as if it knows our need for rest and demands that we have it.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11 “No matter what kind of circumstances come together, if one’s stillness is not shaken and his goal does not change; he is known to have attained religion.” – Dada Bhagwan

#12 “If you keep looking within, you will find stillness, a tranquillity that you’ve never experienced before. It’s like this secret space your mind can visit that unlocks new levels of creativity and confidence that you never thought possible.” – Joel Annesley

#13 “One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.” – D.H. Lawrence

#14 “It was easy to be clever, but hard to look into the face of God, who is found not so much by cleverness as by stillness.” – Mark Helprin

#15 “There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you.” – Mooji

#16 “Stillness is the foundation of understanding and insight.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

#17 “In the stillness, everything happens. In the silence, everything is said.” – Drew Gerald

#18 ”If you want to see yourself, you need to create some space, you need a mirror. Stillness, mindfulness, meditation: these are the mirrors.” – Eric Overby

#19 “Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.” – Jared Brock

#20 “In the stillness, intuition speaks.” – Kim Chestney

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#21 “The ecstasy of dance comes from pure movement of the body, stillness of the mind, and an open heart.” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#22 “Sometimes when we just stand still, the grace finds us.” – Mary Davis

#23 “Mind is like a wild horse that either runs after something or runs away from something. You are not the mind. You are the rider sitting still.” – Shunya

#24 “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

#25 “Go deeply into the urge to be silent and not the mental interference of how, where and when. If you follow silence to its source you can be taken by it in a moment.” – Jean Klein

#26 “Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.” – Akiroq Brost

#27 “When you enter a place of stillness, you awaken the divinity within you.” – Peggy Sealfon

#28 “In the stillness of life, we find our higher self. Be still and God is with you. Be still, and you are never alone.” – Donald L. Hicks

#29 “Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Herman Hesse

#30 “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

#31 “Being still does not mean don’t move. It means move in peace.” – E’yen A. Gardner

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#32 ”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.” – Eckhart Tolle

#33 “Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise.” – Eckhart Tolle

#34 “I honor the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the center of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing.” – Jay Woodman

#35 “There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.” – D.H. Lawrence

#36 “Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.” – Jared Brock

#37 “Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind.” – Marty Rubin

#38 “’Be still.’ What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that ‘I am so and so.’ All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?” – Ramana Maharshi

#39 “Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.” – Kilroy J. Oldster

#40 “Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity.” – Lao Tzu

#41 “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” – Deepak Chopra

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