Khalil Gibran Quotes

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.

Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves. . . .

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything

I aspire only to silence.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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

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.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

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

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

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

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

My time on 'Roadies' gave me serenity and space.

I go to the Himalayas after every film. I go alone. I go to the interiors, to the villages. Being there itself is like meditation.

You can create space just by standing still.

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

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

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.