Stillness Quotations

I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates a sense of balance and stillness which is important for any performing artist.

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.

He's great. He's a great actor, has a really interesting presence. It kind of reminds me of he has a quality that Anthony Hopkins has, he has stillness and precision in his delivery. It's really interesting.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

You and I can turn and lookat the silent river and wait. We knowthe current is there, hidden; and thereare comings and goings from miles awaythat hold the stillness exactly before us.What the river says, that is what I say.

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.

Stillness is training for action.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

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

The stillness envelopes me leaving no where to hide.It shows that which I know I must see, but fear deep inside.For my life is exactly what Ive created it to be,And face this challenge is what I must do, in order to be free.

O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.

An horrid stillness first invades the ear, / And in that stillness we the tempest fear.

Focus on stillness, rather than on movement

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you.

Love works miracles in stillness.

Stillness is your essential nature.

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility;But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger:Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spiritTo his full height!

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.