Stillness Of The Mind Quotes

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

“Let's not be afraid of stilling our mind and having mercy with ourselves, and allowing us patience to recover from our dazzling unawareness and ignorance or from the inferno of overwhelming hassle. ("The umbrella")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“One can observe that such changes in the breath are the direct result of your reaction to thoughts. If you can simply dismiss the thoughts by giving them no value then the breathing will find its own medium and become subtle.”
― Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Cosmic Ordering Meditation

“Sometimes you just have to turn off the lights, sit in the dark, and see what happens inside of you.”
― Adam Oakley

“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Stillness is the most powerful virtue against all odds in life.”
― Aditya Ajmera

“We have between 60,000- and 80,000 thoughts a day. That’s a thought every 1.2 seconds…but we are not our thoughts – we have thoughts. Just like a cell phone is not our texts…it receives texts but they are not the phone. You have thoughts but you are not your thoughts.”
― davidji, Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation

“Mindfulness & Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in a flow of moments we let flow. We can watch moments in detail without being attached to them. Non-attachment to past & future stems from this practice. Worry about past or future is wasted energy, however we can observe the past & learn from it without agonising over it & trust ourselves to handle the future better. We can celebrate the opportunity to grow as we gain understanding from observation & experience. We can watch ourselves & avoid being caught up in over-reactions. "I am loved, right now, in this moment, I love, and am part of love itself. I am aware of myself at every level - the mental slowing gracefully to sense the spiritual within & all around, and the physical being still, or moving. I tune in to the flow of life in my body & the flow of life everywhere. I circulate love with each breath - from without to within & from within to all around.”
― Jay Woodman

“I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing.”
― Jay Woodman

“By quieting externally, you gain the space internally. Life is a flow - it goes on. Good or bad, it will always change.”
― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

“Settle down nighttime.
Cast away arduous thoughts
Peace belongs to you.”
― Araali Ewya X

“When we go into stillness we can hear our soul’s voice loud and clear. If we speak from our heart we share our soul’s melody with the world.”
― Christina Goetz

“[When I meditate,] there in the deep, I could sense something circulating inside me. It was a Knowing. I can know things down at this level that I can't on the chaotic surface. Down here, when I pose a question about my life I sense a nudge. The nudge guides me towards [...] the next right thing, one thing at a time. That was how I began to know what to do next. That was how I began to walk through my life more clearly, solid and steady.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“Stillness within,
Stillness around,
Still is the sky,
the trees,
and the ground...”
― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring

“I desire to establish a profound state of peacefulness, an imperturbable stillness of mind, an unconditioned mode of being that is free from mind contaminants of negative thoughts. I pray to undertake a productive emotional, intellectual, and spiritual journey seeking the highest level of personal realization that defines wholeness and finality. In stillness, a state of mental quietude, we enter the worldly womb of creativity.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“In this worried rush, nobody stopped to see the sun appear over rooftops. Unnoticed beauty lost in the need to be everywhere, in every waking moment.”
― Mala Naidoo, What Change May Come

“Settle down nighttime.
Cast away arduous thoughts
Peace belongs to you.”
― Araali Ewya X, "Kierra C.T. Banks"

“To know your mind,
you need a little distance.
You need to be a step or two away
and be able to notice
what your mind is doing
without being so lost or involved in it
that you can’t see it.
It’s like trying to see your eyes.
If you want to see yourself,
you need to create some space,
you need a mirror.
Stillness, mindfulness, meditation:
these are the mirrors.”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“I'd been drowning, [...] I'd been flailing on the surface. But what I really needed to do to save myself was let myself sink. It struck me that this is why we say to people, "Calm down." Because beneath the noise of the pounding, swirling surf is a place where all is quiet and clear. The chaos stills in this deep.”
― Glennon Doyle, Get Untamed: The Journal

“There is such a freedom being able to sit still … with yourself, your questions, thoughts, dreams and doubts. Can you accept who you are? Are you following your heart or holding yourself back?”
― Brittany Burgunder

“When have you paused to let life in? When have you stopped scrambling to produce more social media content, stopped scrambling as though in a race to be unforgotten? Where are your pauses? Where are the spaces in your life where you let the light in? Where is your stillness? You are afraid of being forgotten, so, you scramble to impress yourself onto everything, everywhere... but what has been impressed into you?”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Solitude jerks you up in a way that no noises in the world can dissolve it.”
― Hiral Nagda

“There will always be ripples. The important thing is the stillness between the ripples.”
― Udayakumar DS, Life of a Sunset Kid

“Music relaxes our mind, just as water quenches our thirst.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“The loudest sound you'll ever hear
is the weight of your own silence—
a roar that fills every corner,
until you're swallowed whole by its echo.”
― Sean DeLaney

“The more I contemplate existence, the less I am attached to the physicalness of my being and more in tune with the essence and energy of my being-ness.”
― Natalia Beshqoy, Awakening: Spiritual Poems for Humanity

“The more I contemplate existence, the less I am attached to the physicalness of my being and more in tune with the essence and energy of my beingness”
― Natalia Beshqoy, Awakening: Spiritual Poems for Humanity

“Life is a battlefield until you realize your true nature. True power is the stillness that remains unshaken amidst the chaos.”
― Bikramjit Konwar

“Stillness is the wellspring of insight.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero