Stillness and Inspirational Quotes
"Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."
Hermann Hesse
"Through return to simple living Comes control of desires. In control of desires Stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored."
Lao Tzu
"No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth."
Lao Tzu
"Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form."
Eckhart Tolle
"It is the stillness that will save and transform the world."
Eckhart Tolle
"I am
glad that so much movement happens in this stillness."
Richard Land
"The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest."
Bruce Lee
"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."
Aldous Huxley
"For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace."
Bhagavad Gita
"O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind."
Bhagavad Gita
"If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation."
Chuang Tzu
"The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God."
Jim Elliot
"The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angles."
Georg Trakl
"Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat."
Lao Tzu
"Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is."
Amy Carmichael
"One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on."
D.H. Lawrence
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
Buddha
"Bring yourself back to the point quite gently. And even if you do nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back a thousand times, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed."
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES, ON MEDITATION
"Believe nothing because a wise man said it.
Believe nothing because it is generally held.
Believe nothing because it is written.
Believe nothing because it is said to be divine
Believe nothing because someone else believes it.
But believe only what you yourself know to be true."
The Buddha
"The
Tao is very close, but everyone looks far away.
Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty."
Taoist Sage, 200 B.C
"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe."
Tao Te Ching
"You become what you think about all day long and those days eventually become your lifetime."
Wayne Dyer
* Don't be
afraid. Have courage.
* Speak your truth; don't care what others think of you.
* Trust in Love.
Unknown
"From silence you come, to silence you go.
Enter your inner space and know where you come from.
The eternal silence awaits you with endless patience."
Unknown
"To be dedicated to this moment, is to be dedicated to our nothingness!
And our nothingness is our freedom!"
Unknown
"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth
is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a
joyful one."
M. Scott Peck
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Teresa
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow
strong by conflict."
William Ellery Channing
"It
has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent."
Gandhi
"I
could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see
so much unkindness in the world, and there is no excuse for me to add to it.
When you love God, and when you see God in every soul, you cannot be mean. If
someone behaves hurtfully toward you, think of the best ways to behave lovingly
toward him..."
Paramahansa Yogananda
"I was shown
a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used
its wings more and more, they became stronger until it found the freedom of
flight and was able to soar to great heights and fly great distance without any
effort. I heard the words:
Faith comes with practice. Live by faith until it becomes rocklike unshakable,
and find the true freedom of the Spirit."
Eileen Caddy
"If you have
made mistakes, even serious mistakes,
you may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down,
but the staying down."
Unknown
"If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it!"
Unknown
"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others."
The Buddha
"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."
Barbara De Angelis
"Love is
patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails."
The Bible
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
Alan Cohen
"God has no religion....."
Mahatma Gandhi
"All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence...."
The Buddha's last words
"Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you...."
Sheng-yen
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"...To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle."
"People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born."
"I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously."
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
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"We are travelers on a cosmic journey—stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. But the expressions of life are ephemeral, momentary, transient. Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, once said,
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds.
To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance.
A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky,
Rushing by like a torrent down a steep mountain.
We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile."
Deepak Chopra
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Be in Stillness and Seize the Moment!
