You can do anything. You can perform miracles, but it won't fulfill you. What will fulfill you is the stillness of eternity.
Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.
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.
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.
At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.
Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains
Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.
It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.
Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.
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.
When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.
Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.
For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.