There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

Beryl Markham

Stichwörter: life nature decay fun quiet stillness



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Feel your emotions,
Live true your passions,
Keep still your mind.

Geoffrey M. Gluckman

Stichwörter: inspirational passion living stillness essence tao ineffable loving



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What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

Yukio Mishima

Stichwörter: knowledge stillness transformation



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I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

Sylvia Plath

Stichwörter: stillness emptiness normalcy numbness



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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

Stichwörter: stillness dizziness why-humans-use-drugs



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There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.

Sadie Jones

Stichwörter: time stillness clock



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

David Foster Wallace

Stichwörter: philosophy time stillness insight impermanence bees mujō 無常



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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 is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

Ramana Maharshi

Stichwörter: identity self stillness meditation



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Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity

Lao Tzu

Stichwörter: stillness



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The inner is foundation of the outer
The still is master of the restless

The Sage travels all day
yet never leaves his inner treasure

Lao Tzu

Stichwörter: stillness



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