Silence Quotes - Page 28

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently, fully aware. Slowly slowly it becomes your very flavour, then the bridge is created.

So meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real meditation is just allowing the mind to have its own way, and not interfering in any way whatsoever - just remaining watchful, witnessing. It silences, by and by, it becomes still. One day it is gone. You are left alone.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

Silence is like a flame, you see?

No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness.

Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise. You may come out of my play uncertain. You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

Create, artist, do not talk.

Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What a shock to our complacency- that everything of us by nature belongs to sin. Our silences belong to sin, our omissions belong to sin, our talents belong to sin, our actions belong to sin. Every facet of our personalities belong to sin; it own us and dominates us. We are its servants.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.