Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Jiddu Krishnamurti , and E. M. Cioran stillness quotes

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"To want nothing and do nothing- that is true creation! To watch the universe emerging and subsiding in one's heart is a wonder."

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (I AM THAT)

"And if you have really come to that state in which there is no effort, then you will find that energy, being still, has its own movement that is not the outcome of society's compulsion or pressure. Because the mind has abundant energy that is still and silent, the mind itself becomes that which is sublime."

Jiddu Krishnamurti , " (talks in Bombay, Feb 27/1955)

"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."

E. M. Cioran (Decay, p14)

            Intelligent apathy is both an internal and external event: internally it vaporizes the struggle to 'know' because the individual realizes that awareness requires no effort; externally it vaporizes the individual's participation in any false paradigm which offers nothing but the absence of stillness, for the Tao is stillness.

            This quintessential accomplishment- of apathetic innocence.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.