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How to use the word stillness in a Sentence?

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In the stillness of the transition, every creature takes a part, An ensemble of existence, beating with Earth’s endless heart.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
6 months ago

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

Morgan Freeman

added by kevinb.03250
1 year ago

Halyna was the love of my life, and our loss of her has devastated our family's dreams.We feel the silence of her being forever gone as a suffocating stillness in our home, our love and adoration for her grows as we tell her story, and we hope her work can inspire filmmakers and storytellers around the world. We thank the many generous supporters who have been so thoughtful in our time of loss.

Matt Hutchins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The solution typically lies in the stillness at the base of mind within that shadowy place most refuse to look.

Brandon Garic Notch

added by Brandon G. Notch
2 years ago

There was a stillness in the air that was absolutely terrifying, no birds. No wildlife. Everything had taken cover.

Tina Gordon

Found on CNN
3 years ago

On hearing the subtle unstruck sounds of Om, the mind goes to the state of perfect stillness and the bliss of infinity arises. The chakras and nadis create divine melodies like a heavenly flute.

Amit Ray

added by anonymous
5 years ago

Many people, doctors, and scientists agree. We are our thoughts. Consciousness is a just a sophisticated function of the brain. Question? In meditation, who is the witness? Who is sitting there in the stillness? Who is aware of the mind-body? Who is quietly watching the thoughts? Who is the observer? How can we be both the observer and the observed?

H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
5 years ago

The secret to reality, is stillness of body and mind. Mental clarity is like a pond. Still the pond. Let everything settle. Vision then becomes crystal clear. When we still the body. When we still the mind. When we let all thoughts and emotions settle. When we remove all distractions. Only then, we clearly see reality as it is.

H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
6 years ago

The secret to understanding reality is stillness of body and mind

H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
6 years ago

In the quite stillness of meditation reality reveals itself. This is where the ultimate answers are found. They are found in supreme consciousness. They are within. We have knowledge of it because we are part of it. We are individualized units of it. The answers are found by waking up. Spiritual consciousness is experience and understanding of our true essence. We are pure conscious energy. God consciousness is experience and understanding of God. God is the supreme pure conscious energy. Ultimately, we are one.

H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
6 years ago

I fell in love with your silence than your animated lifeless gestures, for its your stillness that conveyed more than what even words failed to express...

RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

MEDITATE when you need stillness. Seek KNOWLEDGE when you need movement. LOVE when you want to know your true self.

Gordana Biernat

added by anonymous
6 years ago

I grew up watching that movie, and she's so brilliant in it... I remember being very impressed with her reactions, her stillness, her stillness in that film, I think really helped sell a lot of the horror.

Ellen Ripley

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Stillness is the absence of motion. There's no space for time to fly and no time for space to be. In stillness space and time are point-less.

Gordana Biernat

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Stillness is always waiting for you to reconnect to it; to know the truth once again

Renae A. Sauter

added by createfate
7 years ago

The smell, the nocturnal stillness, the dance of droplets and the moonlight on the road. The perfect sense.

Ashima

added by ashima
7 years ago

Often in the course of working I will shoot a detail and try to make it say something compelling with its stillness so it's not completely alien. the nose freaked me out more than the ear-- I think because of its dimensionality.

Photographer Seamus Murphy

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A philosopher's mind is calm like the stillness of a river but goes deep like the depth of the sea

Amenorhu kwaku

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Thinking is a brain activity. Knowing is a gut feeling. Thinking is movement. Knowing is stillness. Thinking takes time. Knowing is now.

Gordana Biernat

added by JP03
8 years ago

It represents one of the longest and most forgotten African wars, its apparent stillness leads to hear about it less and less. Given the tragic consequences and repercussions on the population, I find it essential to bring it to light.

Fabio Bucciarelli

Found on CNN
9 years ago

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of the night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible. From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half sound, a half whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of the earth and all created things in the great miracle of nature?decay and reproduction?ever beginning, never ending?the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

Longfellow

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

Rabindranath Tagore

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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