The Power of Stillness Quotes

“The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds. The eyes were not made for such groveling uses as they are now put to and worn out by, but to behold beauty now invisible. May we not see God? — Henry David Thoreau8”
― Tobin Blake, The Power of Stillness: Learn Meditation in 30 Days

“For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.”
― Tobin Blake, The Power of Stillness: Learn Meditation in 30 Days

“Man is two men; one is awake in darkness, the other is asleep in light.”
― Tobin Blake, The Power of Stillness: Learn Meditation in 30 Days

“How to sit during meditation has been emphasized again and again throughout the various meditative traditions, but I think it is a secondary matter. There aren’t any magical positions, and in the beginning comfort is paramount.”
― Tobin Blake, The Power of Stillness: Learn Meditation in 30 Days