The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.
For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.
Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.
In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.
Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.
In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.
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.
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.
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony
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.
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.
We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
