Quotes on Stillness Speaks

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Nothing that comes and goes is you. _x000D_ _x000D_ 'I am bored.' Who knows this? _x000D_ _x000D_ 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? _x000D_ _x000D_ You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Is suffering really necessary?_x000D_ _x000D_ Yes and no._x000D_ _x000D_ If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.