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- Nov 07, 2020
Stillness Quotes
On the quiet strength found in standing still
These quotes treat stillness as a skill worth mastering, whether it's an actor's frightening command of a scene or a hard-won sense of radiance found in quiet. Our Art page explores craft from a related angle.
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- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.
- Blankets
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.
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- Nov 07, 2020