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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides |
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We
need to find God, and he cannot be found in
noise and restlessness. God is
the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move
in silence. We need silence
to be able to touch souls. The more we receive in silent
prayer,
the more we can give in our active life.
Mother
Teresa
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Silence
must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the
natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is
life without privacy. The difference
between
sanity and madness is the quality
of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.
Norman
Cousins
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Silence has a regenerative power of its
own.
It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
Barbara De Angelis
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As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has
begun to gather in me,
coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys
or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence
everywhere.
Rachel
Naomi Remen
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Silence
is something like an endangered species. The experience
of
silence
is now so rare that we must guard it and treasure it.
Gunilla
Norris
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As there are silent depths in the ocean which
the fiercest storm
cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of
people
which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To
reach
this silence and to live consciously in it is peace.
James Allen
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Silence stands
outside
the world of profit
and utility. It cannot be exploited for profit;
you cannot get anything
out
of it. It is "unproductive,"
therefore it is
regarded
as useless. Yet there
is more help and healing
in silence
than in
all useful things.
Max Picard
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True silence
really means going deep within yourself to that place
where nothing is happening, where you transcend time and space.
You go into a brand new dimension of nothingness. That's
where
all the power is. That's your real home. That's where
you really
belong, in deep Silence where there is no good or bad, no one
trying to achieve anything. Just being, pure being. . . .
Silence is the ultimate reality.
Robert Adams |
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The truest communication with God is absolute,
total silence;
there is not a single word in existence that can
convey this communication.
Bernadette Roberts |
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The apron of silence is with me.
Silence is a gift. Be silent.
Clara Sandburg |
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What is it that stands higher than
words? Action.
What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.
Francis of Assisi |
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Silence is a true friend who never
betrays.
Confucius |
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Silence is the language of God;
it is also the language of the heart.
Sivananda |
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Our greatest experiences are
our quietest
moments.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
There are times when
silence
has the loudest voice.
Leroy Brownlow |
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Our task is to
listen to the news
that is always arriving out of silence.
Rainer Maria Rilke |
There are times
when silence
is the most sacred of responses.
Eugene Kennedy |
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In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there
is a great need for quietness of spirit.
Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our
problems,
asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of
silence to listen for God’s answers.
By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath
the turbulent surface waves
of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still,
where no storms can reach us.
Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.
Alice Hegan Rice |
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A
happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life,
for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
Bertrand
Russell
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Talk
uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud,
they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air
like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the
rich soil of silence do they grow.
Doris
Grumbach
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All
my days I grew up among the sages, and I have found
nothing better for a person than silence.
Pirke Aboth
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May my silences become more accurate.
Theodore Roethke
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The
quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Baba Ram Dass |
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Silence
is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth
living. Talking is often a torrent for me, and I
need many days of silence to recover from the futility of
words.
Carl
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What a strange power there
is in silence! How many resolutions are formed, how many
sublime conquests effected, during that pause when the lips are
closed, and the soul secretly feels the eye of her Maker upon
her! They are the strong ones who know how to keep silence
when it is a pain and a grief unto them, and who give time to
their own souls to wax strong against temptation.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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Without
silence, there cannot be any real appreciation of life,
which is as delicate in its inner fabrics as a closed rosebud.
Deepak Chopra |
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In
a noisy world, seek the silence in your heart. And through
the power
of silence, the energies of chaos will be brought back to
harmony--not
by you, but through you, as all miracles are. When we visit
this silence
regularly, particularly in the morning, then the days of our lives
become
lit from above. Darkness and fear are cast from our midst,
slowly at first,
one moment at a time. Ultimately, all darkness will be gone
from every heart.
Marianne
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Unfortunately,
in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see
is beautiful and attractive.
This is undoubtedly part of the reason we
flee silence.
We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy,
our phoniness.
We see how false and fragile is the false self we project.
We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true
self.
It is a harrowing journey, a death to self—the false self—and
no one
wants to die.
But it is the only path to life, to freedom, to peace,
to true love.
And it begins with silence.
We cannot give ourselves in love
if we do not know and possess ourselves.
This is the great value of silence.
It is the pathway to all we truly want.
M. Basil Pennington |
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Silence
speaks, the contemplatives say. But really, I think, silence
sorts. An ordering instinct sends people into the hush where
the voice
can be heard. . . Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day's
deck,
the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless
hand of
solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it
all again.
Patricia Hampl |
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There is something greater and purer than
what the mouth utters.
Silence illuminates our souls, whispers to our hearts, and brings
them together.
Khalil Gibran |
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Certain experiences may be transmitted by
language,
others--more profound--by silence; and then there are
those that cannot be transmitted, not even by silence.
Elie Wiesel |
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Silence
means you are under complete control of all your emotional
reactions, which are conquered in silence.
Everything that happens in our bodies happens in complete
silence. And when you start hearing from it, then
you know something is wrong! The principle of
healing is to invoke silence--going into the silence.
Mother Serena |
What
I love most of all is the silence. It's the silence
that works. Silence is marvelous. . . Whew!
It's gorgeous. No sounds. . . nobody. . . no
touching. . . I walk through the door, and there it is
waiting for me in the room. I have instant silence!
Joan Fontaine |
Silence
is unceasing eloquence. It is the best language.
Ramana Maharshi |
An
elaborately patient silence can be very provoking!
C.S. Lewis |
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Deliberately to choose to be silent at times, to watch and weigh
our
words when we speak, would accomplish more for many
than the pious practices they so much enjoy.
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