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stillness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.

Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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For Yeats, the only salvation is the shapeliness and stillness of art." citation See external links for a bas relief arranged in the position as described by Yeats. Source: Internet

Hesychasm is a form of constant purposeful prayer or experiential prayer, explicitly referred to as contemplation focusing on the idea of stillness and the characteristic mystical idea of light as the vehicle for knowing God. Source: Internet

Powerfully delineated figures are lost in contemplative stillness. Source: Internet

Quoted in Knowlson (1997) p522 Following from Krapp's Last Tape, many of these later plays explore memory, often in the form of a forced recollection of haunting past events in a moment of stillness in the present. Source: Internet

The group sits together, unified in silence atop the sandstone hill, the stillness interrupted only by fleeting birds and the occasional crocodile, gliding through the water and sending ripples across the surface. Source: Internet

In the stillness, and suspense, of the winter of ’92 some memory of the Masonic Lions of my childhood's magazine, and a phrase in Haggard's Nada the Lily, combined with the echo of this tale. Source: Internet

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