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Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.


Paul Auster


#choice #comfort #comsolation #escape #pleasure

In order to answer the question “Who am I?”, in order to go back to before the beginning within your own experience, you have to put your attention on the deepest sense of what it feels like to be yourself right now, and simultaneously let everything else go. Letting go means falling so deeply into yourself that all that is left is empty space. To discover that infinite depth in your own self, you must find a way to enter into a deep state of meditation—so deep that your awareness of thought moves into the background and eventually disappears. As your awareness detaches itself from the thought-stream, your identification with emotion and memory begins to fall away. When awareness of thought disappears, awareness of the passing of time disappears along with it. If you keep penetrating into the infinite depths of your own self, even your awareness of your own physical form will disappear. If you go deep enough, letting your attention expand and release from all objects in consciousness, you will find that all the structures of the created universe begin to crumble before your eyes. Awareness itself—limitless, empty, pristine—becomes the only object of your attention. As your attention is released from the conditioned mind-process, freed from the confines of the body and the boundaries of the personal self-sense, the inner dimension of your own experience begins to open up to an immeasurable degree. Imagine that you have been fast asleep in a small, dark chamber, then suddenly awaken to find yourself floating in the infinite expanse of a vast, peaceful ocean. That’s what this journey to the depths of your own self feels like. You become aware of a limitless dimension that you did not even know was there. Moments before, you may have experienced yourself as being trapped, a prisoner of your body, mind, and emotions. But when you awaken to this new dimension, all sense of confinement disappears. You find yourself resting in, and as, boundless empty space. In that empty space, the mind is completely still; there is no time, no memory, not even a trace of personal history. And the deeper you fall into that space, the more everything will continue to fall away, until finally all that will be left is you. When you let absolutely everything go—body, mind, memory, and time—you will find, miraculously, that you still exist. In fact, in the end, you discover that all that exists is you!


Andrew Cohen


#stillness-of-the-mind #experience

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.


Gore Vidal


#cannot #choose #literature #lose #made

But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached.


Julie Bale


#new-adult-contemporary-romance #the-stillness-of-you #beauty

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.


Ann Brashares


#beautiful #heaven #lost-city #stillness #vision

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.


T. S. Eliot


#darkness #light #shall #stillness

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.


Morgan Freeman


#hardest #i #learn #stillness #the hardest thing

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.


Morgan Freeman


#anthony #anthony hopkins #anything #appear #character

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.


Mark Rothko


#art #concrete #making #me #means

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.


David Ogden Stiers


#clear #experience #get #give #kids






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