#stillness

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Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance...


Annie Dillard


#stillness #nature

There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once? Didn’t they learn their lesson the first time or the tenth time or the twentieth time? And it’s the same old lesson: everything in this life—I repeat, everything—is more trouble than it’s worth. And simply being alive is the basic trouble. This is something that is more recognized in Eastern societies than in the West. There’s a minor tradition in Greek philosophy that instructs us to seek a state of equanimity rather than one of ecstasy, but it never really caught on for obvious reasons. Buddhism advises its practitioners not to seek highs or lows but to follow a middle path to personal salvation from the painful cravings of the average sensual life, which is why it was pretty much reviled by the masses and mutated into forms more suited to human drives and desires. It seems evident that very few people can simply sit still. Children spin in circles until they collapse with dizziness.


Thomas Ligotti


#stillness #why-humans-use-drugs #life

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.


Sylvia Plath


#emptiness #normalcy #numbness #stillness #chaos

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.


A. R. Ammons


#god #greatest #included #motions #must

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy.


Susanna Kaysen


#insanity #stillness #velocity #viscosity #business

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.


Theodore Bikel


#breath #get #intake #moving #something

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.


Deepak Chopra


#inside #keep #midst #movement #stillness

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.


Oliver Wendell Holmes


#features #good #good breeding #marks #person

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


#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.


Chris Evans


#bit #brain #figure #find #got