The best time on the beach for me is the late afternoon when the sun begins to set and the sea is placid — always, a sense of calmness and clarity overtakes my mind and body. (I should mention that the stillness might be interrupted by adorable, but loud Greek kids– since the sun ...
"When she [Luna-Selene the Moon] shone in fullest radiance . . . [the witch] Medea . . . went forth alone upon her roaming way, in the deep stillness of the midnight hour . . . Then to the stars she stretched her arms, and thrice she turned about and thrice bedewed her locks ...
. . in the deep stillness of the midnight hour . . . To the stars she stretched her arms, and thrice she turned about and thrice bedewed her locks with water, thrice a wailing cry she gave, then kneeling on the stony ground, ‘O Nox (Night) [Nyx], Mother of Mysteries, and all ...
In that state of alert inner stillness we connect with the unconditioned consciousness, so that we are no longer trapped in the conditioned mind. Plotinus puts it like this: “Leaving all thought behind, [the soul] releases itself into silence.” The mind then becomes the instrument of a hi...
There is something special about this night. The air is full of the scent of flowers, it is still but not heavy, there is a melancholic feeling all over but there is also something different. There is a feeling of stillness, emptiness, calmness and the hearts seem to open to accept the...
involuntary stillness, or inability to speak; and thus differing from sigh - sige 4602, which is rather a voluntary refusal or indisposition to speak, although the terms are often used synonymously); to be dumb (but not deaf also, like kwfoV - kophos 2974 properly); figuratively, to be ...
"[The witch] Medea [casts a spell] . . . in the deep stillness of the midnight hour . . . To the stars she stretched her arms, and thrice she turned about and thrice bedewed her locks with water, thrice a wailing cry she gave, then kneeling on the stony ground, ‘O Nox (Night...