Quotes with stillness

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  • Amy Carmichael 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
    Missionary in India (1867 - 1951)
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  • Bhagavad Gita 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
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • A. R. Ammons If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Zhuang Zhou 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.
    Zhuang Zhou
    Chinese philosopher (369 - 286)
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  • Morgan Freeman It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
    Morgan Freeman
    American actor, producer and narrator (1937 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • 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
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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