Sentence examples for state of stillness from inspiring English sources

Listeners are encouraged to enter into a state of stillness that is not unlike meditation.

But it seems to me Millais imagines Ophelia quite differently: in a strange and fascinating state of stillness, drifting past the screen of the picture-frame: I imagine from right to left.

"The way he talked about the benefits of meditation just made so much sense, even to a person trained in the Western biomedical tradition," said Kim. "It was exhilarating to learn that Buddhism offered such a clear method to reach a state of stillness, greater awareness, compassion and empathy.

In the early Buddhist texts, it is stated throughout the canon that a practitioner should aim for both the deep states of stillness (known as samatha), as a way into the deeper insights known as vipassana (or 'seeing clearly').

(I remember seeing him, in the spring of that year, sitting by himself, in a state of concentrated stillness, early one morning in a coffee shop in New York's financial district; filming had either just started or was about to begin).

The "way" becomes clear when one is in constant mediation with all thoughts being subconsciously regulated outside the state of mental stillness, although emotions will drive thoughts they remain an absolute choice.

The moods veer between states of meditative stillness and ecstatic exuberance.

Perhaps I seek out such scenes to match my surroundings with my inner state, to find some kind of stillness.

Surely nothingness is a state of anything "happening" because even stillness "happens", right?

At that time in the 16th century the Inquisition only allowed the mental repetition of prescribed prayers, but St. Teresa was drawn to the mystical Prayer of Quiet, a state of inner receptivity, a listening stillness very similar to the receptive Prayer of the Heart within the Sufi tradition I had been practicing.

And I'm thinking about empathy as a way to bridge the trauma -- the ongoing stillness, the constant state of urgency - and to activate the bodies of the audience and the movers (The Moving Company members).