Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains
There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
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.
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.
True power is stillness within motion.
Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.
The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.
What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.
There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment.
Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.
Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.
Stillness is the ruler of haste.
In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.
Build pockets of stillness into your life.
In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.