It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.
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.
Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?
I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes. . So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?
In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.
Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.
I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.
Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.
In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.
Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy
. . . the haunted always take refuge in stillness.
We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is. . . modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.
We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.
In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.