Silence Quotes - Page 26

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

The friend of silence comes close to God.

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer.

The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."

Silence is the cornerstone of character.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.

So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

A word is elegy to what it signifies.