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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
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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 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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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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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 has a regenerative power of its
own.
It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
Barbara De Angelis |
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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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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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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
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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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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Do not open your mouth
But keep guard over your lips
When you are provoked and angered.
If you speak out in haste
You shall have to atone later
So soothe your soul with silence.
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Learn to get in touch with
silence within yourself
and know that everything in this
life has
a purpose. There are no mistakes and
no coincidences; all events are blessings
given to us to
learn from.
Elisabeth
Kuebler-Ross
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True
silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit
what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William
Penn |
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In
the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer
light,
and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal
clearness.
Mohandas
Gandhi |
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God
has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our
lives. If I
want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the
things I need
to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will
speak to you most
powerfully. Too often
his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the
crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us.
We must have a quiet
heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.
Tim
Hansel |
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My
times of silence before God are very important to me now.
I put everything
else down, every word away, and I am with the Lord.
When I'm quiet, life falls
into perspective for me. I
have a very active mind and I'm a worrier, but in those
moments when I choose to put that away, I rest beside the Shepherd
in still places.
Why don't you give yourself a gift today?
Turn off the television or the car
stereo, put down the newspaper or the business plan, and in the
quietness,
rest for a while beside the Shepherd of your soul.
Sheila
Walsh |
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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
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