Stillness Quotes
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity.
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Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.
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I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
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Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.
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Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.
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Stillness is where the answers to many of our questions come from.
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A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.
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For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?
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Only in the stillness of thought can decisions be properly made.
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Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. The practice of yoga is the practice of meditation-or inner listening-in the poses and meditations, as well as all day long. It's a matter of listening inwardly for guidance all the time, and then daring enough and trusting enough to do as you are prompted to do.
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Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.
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Even so today, though it means being despised and misunderstood, get alone in the wilderness of quiet and stillness before God. Seek His face till your soul is kindled with the flames of love from the burning bush.
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To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.
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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
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You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.
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There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.
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The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.
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It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
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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.
