Anne Rivers Siddons Quotes

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

The ability to just sit there. That's being a person.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.

There is nothing to do but be.

Walking is a meditative act. It's so rare that we allow ourselves just to be.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Before you find a way to channel your emotional energy, you must take time to be still and actually feel. Meditation is a simple tool for becoming present.

I try to take each moment at a time.

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Here is the Divine Dichotomy... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's that simple.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

Its never too late to take a moment to look.

Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.