A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.
Clarity is often found in stillness.
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.
In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine. . . . to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
Stillness is the ruler of haste.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.
Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes. . So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?
At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.
Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.
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.
For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness. . . my life was without past or future. . . but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.
Focus on stillness, rather than on movement