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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Stillness
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness. ~Meister Eckhart
We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we
can see. ~Taoist proverb
The self must know stillness before it can discover its true song. ~Ralph Blum
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet
mind is adequate perception of the world. ~Hans Margolius
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Lao Tzu
Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. It
is the I Am that is deeper than name and form. ~Eckhart Tolle
Enter into the stillness inside your busy life. Become familiar with her ways.
Grow to love her, feel [her] with all your heart and you will come to hear her
silent music and become one with Love’s silent song. ~Noel Davis
Assess not, compare not! Just be fully present and still, and let the Universe
bless you abundantly with Peace and Eternal Love. ~Ernest Fokove
Be still and know that I am God. ~Psalm 46:10
In a quiet moment we can get an intuitive insight that can change our entire
life and the lives of the people around us in incredibly positive ways. ~Elaine
St James
The heart at rest sees a feast in everything. ~Hindi proverb
Man’s greatest strength is shown in standing still. ~Edward Young
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us, that
they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer,
perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet. ~Wiliam Butler Yeats
It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and
call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness
where you are one with listening itself. ~Jean Klein
When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and
the fragrance of the rock. ~Stephen Mitchell
My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires. ~Hazrat
Inayat Khan
Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any
time and be yourself. ~Herman Hesse
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it
will roll in ecstasy at you feet. ~Franz Kafka
Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with
himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same
source…We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have
only to open, only to discover what is already here. ~Henry Miller
The sorrows of duty,
Like the heat of the sun,
Have scorched your heart.
But let stillness fall on you
With its sweet and cooling showers,
And you will find happiness.
~Ashtavakra Gita 18:3
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
Let your mind and soul be at ease. Don’t grasp and grab for the magic and
miracles. When you reside in that place of stillness, the joy, miracles, and
magic you’re seeking will find you. ~Melodie Beattie
The secret of the receptive
Must be sought in stillness
Within stillness there remains
The potential for action.
~Zhou Xuanjing
Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the
universe falls into alignment. ~Philip Yancey
Compose yourself in stillness, draw your attention inward and devote your
mind to the Self. The wisdom you seek lies within. ~Bhagavad Gita
In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourself
and be still. Wait upon God, and feel his good presence; this will carry you
evenly through your day’s business. ~William Penn
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its
surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self
when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. ~Indra Devi
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is
quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness
affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness,
inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.
~Nisagardatta Maharaj
If you would keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be
able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. It’s your restlessness that
causes chaos. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
In a mind clear as still water,
even the waves, breaking,
are reflecting its light.
~Dogen Zenji
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table, and listen.
Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it
will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ~Franz Kafka
The greatest events–they are not our loudest but our stillest hours. ~Friedrich
Nietzsche
When you deeply accept this moment as it is–no matter what form it
takes–you are still, you are at peace. ~Eckhart Tolle
When one is perfectly still–mind and body, silent and alone–there is no
personality to speak of, thus personality is one’s unique way of expression, it
is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than
that.~Bernadette Roberts
We are often unprepared for life’s challenges and at times our reaction to
certain individuals, instances, or events can leave us feeling ugly. Such
feelings of ugliness can be pretty powerful, sometimes strong enough to cause
us to lose sight of, and disconnect from, the innocence and beauty of our true
essence. Slowing down and easing gradually into stillness while concentrating
on the energy that fills our heart, the same energy that connects us to each
other, will bring us back to the everlasting beauty of ourselves. ~Mary Dunlop
Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don’t have to
go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal
themselves in the still water of our heart. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
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.
~Wendell Berry
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the
silence. ~Sri Aurobindo
When the mind is left with nothing to cling to, it becomes still. ~Ramana
Maharshi
When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself.
You connect with it at a very deep level. ~Eckhart Tolle
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the
veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. ~Bayazid Al-Ristami
Be still and know yourself as the Truth you have been searching for.
Be still and let the inherent joy of that Truth capture your drama
and destroy it in the bliss of consummation.
Be still and let your life be lived by the purpose you were made for.
Be still and receive the inherent truth of your heart.
~Gangaji
A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom. ~Adyashanti
How do I become still?
By flowing with the stream.
~Lao Tzu
There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no
doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is
the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally
present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your
own being. ~Mooji
Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal
That which is Openness. ~Adyashanti
The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the
more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can
make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be
known … what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet
whatever appears. ~Gangaji
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the
mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness
naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent
abyss beyond all knowing. ~Adyashanti
