Indira Gandhi Quotes

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion.

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

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

You can create space just by standing still.

If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

At the still point, there the dance is.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

I aspire only to silence.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

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.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

The best jujitsu practitioners are really serene and grounded.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

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

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!