• Stillness is the best way to pray… and prayer helps calm the restless mind to appreciate the stillness
• to be aware is the deepest prayer. To rest in Aware is Prayer;
• the kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17:20
• True meditation is …pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer… True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness.  –Adyashanti

“Be still and know that I am God” is the key to the enigma of truth, for it sums up the whole of the Short Path. Paradox is the final revelation. For this is “non-doing.” Rather is it a “letting-be,” a non-interference by your egoistic will, a silencing of all the mental agitation and effort. 23.5.202
 

He will understand the real spirit of meditation when he understands that he has to do nothing at all, just to sit still physically, mentally, and emotionally.  For the moment he attempts to do anything, he intrudes his ego.  By sitting inwardly and outwardly still, he surrenders egoistic action and thereby implies that he is willing to surrender his little self to his Overself.  He shows that he is willing to step aside and let himself be worked upon, acted through, and guided by a higher power. 23.7.238

The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in everyone. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.  24:4.51

Consciousness appearing as the person seeks itself.  This is its quest.  But when it learns and comprehends that it is itself the object of that quest, the person stops not only seeking outside himself but even engaging in the quest itself.  Henceforth he lets himself be moved by the Overself’s flow.   23.1.3

To enter this stillness is the best way to pray. 18.2.60

Eckhart Tolle:

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.   You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness. —Stillness Speaks

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Instead of reacting to content, The content is allowed to be and instead of being aware of, identified with what arises in the now, you become aware of the now itself, beyond the phenomena that arise in it: that is the miracle of transformation of consciousness. What does it mean, you become aware of the now itself? You become aware of an undercurrent of stillness in which everything happens: you sense it. Even that is not correct. You realize that you are it.

Even if you never went to another talk, only remembered to listen to silence whenever possible. Through this the new consciousness would arise more and more. FOHC Track 2