The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum.
For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.
Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.
Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness!
If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
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.
You can do anything. You can perform miracles, but it won't fulfill you. What will fulfill you is the stillness of eternity.
Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion!
Avoid the things in your life that take away from your stillness. Find things that add to that stillness. Bring them more into your life. It doesn't matter what works or doesn't. It is all individual.
Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.
Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.
Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
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.
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.
I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.