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Attain complete emptiness,Hold fast to stillness.Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.Mind opening...

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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its var...

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Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance...

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I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precis...

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Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method ...

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Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet th...

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

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[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneli...

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What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything ...

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Yukio MishimaThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the tra...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His mov...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are ...

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There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a...

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One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

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David Foster WallaceBrief Interviews with Hideous Men

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stilln...

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Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of ...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house...

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Eudora WeltyThe Collected Stories

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much th...

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Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word fr...

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