For the Love of Dirt: Stillness

Saturday, May 25, 2024

STILLNESS.....

"If you want to be happy. BE..." -Leo Tolstoy

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen, takes an inner radiance..." -Morgan Freeman

"In the inner stillness, where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds..." -St. John of the Cross

"Here will we sit and let the sounds of music creep.....soft stillness and the night become the touches of sweet harmony.." -Shakespeare

"Peace is the fairest form of happiness.." -W. Ellery Channing (1780-1842)

"Teach me the art of creating islands of stillness, in which I can absorb the beauty of everyday things..." -Marion Stroud

"The greatest revelation is stillness.." - Lao-Tzu 16th century)

"Whenever there is stillness, there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song and dance.." -Annie Dillard

"Over all the mountaintops is peace. The little birds in the forest are silent. wait then; soon you, too, will have peace.." -Goethe (1749-1832)

"They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary...."-Isaiah 40:31

"In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, and hope to despair.." - Howard Thurman

"When you lose touch with inner stillness,you lose touch with yourself. 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."-Eckhart Tolle

"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour.." -William Blake ( 1757-1827)

"Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy peace....If you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is..." Amy Carmichael