That silence, that stillness is here

Window of beginning, stillness, new light of the dawn

Then she waited a moment and listened at the stillness.

And even in stillness, puppets maintain a kind of aura.

In the neighbouring room on the left a painful stillness descended.

The mother and sister talked guardedly to each other in the stillness.

And the deep matters as much as the stillness and the water do.

And leave the sea in stillness. Indeed, they are an army to be drowned.

His white breast, the stillness of the air, and the smoothness of the water were all against him.

But perhaps even this sky does not exist, perhaps there is nothing at all but stillness and peace.

It was while she was standing here and just after she had said this that the stillness was broken by a sound.

And I began to think that really, movement was only as good as the sense of stillness that you could bring to it to put it into perspective.

Mrs. Bunting, it seems, woke up suddenly in the stillness that comes before the dawn, with the strong impression that the door of their bedroom had opened and closed.

And for a little while longer he lay quietly with weak breathing, as if perhaps waiting for normal and natural conditions to re emerge out of the complete stillness.

No man could breast the colossal and headlong stream that seemed to break and swirl against the dim stillness in which we were precariously sheltered as if on an island.

And I began to think that something in me had really been crying out for stillness, but of course I couldn't hear it because I was running around so much.

Those who have kept vigil by a sick bed have heard such faint sounds in the stillness of the night watches, sounds wrung from a racked body, from a weary soul.

He is the Cleaver of the Daybreak, and He hath appointed the night for stillness, and the sun and the moon for reckoning. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise.

At the source of the longest river the voice of a hidden waterfall not known because not looked for, but heard, half heard in the stillness beneath the waves of the sea.

His back was no longer shaken by his gasps he stood straight as an arrow, faintly visible and still and the meaning of this stillness sank to the bottom of my soul

Suddenly, as I was taking up a fresh sheet of notepaper, I heard a low sound, the first sound that, since we had been shut up together, had come to my ears in the dim stillness of the room.

Because if it requires for a while that you're in deep meditation or you're watching, in the state of watching, watching, watching, then the very fact that this conservation of energy and observing, observing, observing, and somehow through your own vipassana training, your mind comes to that state of stillness, compassion, love, lightness, everything.

I was becoming fanciful in the midst of my industrious scribbling and though, when the scratching of my pen stopped for a moment, there was complete silence and stillness in the room, I suffered from that profound disturbance and confusion of thought which is caused by a violent and menacing uproar of a heavy gale at sea, for instance.