Robert Adams Quotes

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

Its never too late to take a moment to look.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

I aspire only to silence.

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don't have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart.

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

The reflected world is the conquest of calm.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

Listen to the sound of silence.