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In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.
What I am looking for ... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.
Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.
This pause of rest, This morning hush before the sun.
The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.
In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.
Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond
measure.
Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it.
When we are quiet and still we contract and settle.
The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.
I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
For a moment, all movement ceases and the scene is one of crystalline stillness, silent except for a slow, melodramatic heartbeat.
SILENCE Means CONCERNED
When we invoke stillness within our consciousness, we have the power to recover the child we forgot that we once were.
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.
In our stillness, we acknowledge God's greatness and we are at peace in our life. Stillness saturates us in the Presence of God.
In Silence there is eloquence.
Stillness empowers. Being able to detach from all external stimulants - social media, social engagements, TV, alcohol, food, etc. - and face our own silence is an enormous luxury that should not be taken for granted. The most rewarding moments in my life have stemmed from such stillness.
When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me.
Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.
Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.
This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
Nothing could be more heart rending than this mute and motionless dispair
Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.
It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.
With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.
Silence is the sound of our soul
Left alone, I was passive; repulsed, I withdrew; forgotten - my lips would not utter, nor my eyes dart a reminder.
This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness; and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end.
When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.
To be silent is to be passive.
Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in.
In stillness I notice how time and space disappear. All there is is the present moment and my willingness to listen ... to allow the stillness to speak-Eileen Fisher
Silence is a still noise.
You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
Silence hung in the air like secret loss.
The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence ...
When the world stilled again, ominous silence reigned. Scratch that, not silence exactly. The van's radiator hissed, and someone was groaning. Oh, right. That was me.
The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.
Suddenly it was terribly quiet, as if the earth itself were too stunned to breathe. I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn't mean you aren't hearing it. Frankie
Meditation is the action of silence.
In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life.
Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently. A
True power is stillness within motion.
The greatest revelation is stillness.
Silent is the ruined land.
Man is brutal
and the rain does not wash away
the pain
or rid the distant memory.
It makes it glisten.
In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.
There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.
Your silence was effortless and windless, like the silence of clouds or plants. All silence is the recognition of a mystery. There was much about you that seemed mysterious. A
Silence has a sound
The quiet is fretful, unnatural. It's what a mouse must feel as it steps from its hole and into the open blades of a meadow, never knowing what shadow might come cruising above.
Like a dart the present glances,
Silent stands the past sublime.
The rest, is silence.
Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.
The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest...
It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
The stillness of God is perfect. Nothing has to be added to it. Nothing can be taken away.
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.
Silence is its own kind of tension.
Silence is eternal eloquence
Stillness is the ruler of haste.
Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.
There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.
Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.
My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would be the first silence that would carry meaning.
To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
In silence there is a perfection which any toil injures.
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
Muscle, had goggled him and muzzled him - goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest.
How silent the unbeating heart.
Everything around me goes suddenly silent, even the cicadas in the trees pausing in their incessant whirring, momentarily stunned into stillness. For a long moment I hear nothing at all, but stand frozen in a silent grey world.
Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.
Real action is in silent moments.
In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.
In quietness the soul expands,
He has learned that silence means the absolute balance of the body, spirit and soul. The man who preserves his unity will never be dominated by the storms of existence; he has the strength to overcome the difficulties and move forwards.
Listen: the dark we've only ever imagined now audible, thrumming,
marbled with static like gristly meat. a chorus of engines churns.
silence taunts: a dare. everything that disappears
disappears as if returning somewhere.
Quiet mind, quiet soul.
Only in the stillness of thought can decisions be properly made.
Silence is the music of the heart.
A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.
Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.
Silence is a time of reflection to bring peace and meaning to your life, and to those around you. This deafening quiescence will mean different things to different people but if they listen carefully, they will understand...
There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.
As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.
in painted quiet and concentration
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
Silence is the voice of the mystery. Silence let us dream again.
The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined.
Whose silence are you?
But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.