Stillness speaks

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.

-- Eckhart Tolle (link)

See also this post.

Drowning man

Bhagavan stated that self-enquiry should be performed with the same intensity as that of a drowning man struggling for air, only then can it succeed.