Silence Quotes - Page 29

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts.

That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it, like looking up at a limitless sky. That boundary-less place inside you is your own consciousness, your awareness. When you relax into it, you realize that it's also full - it is everything. You realize this presence is what you really are: Love.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo.

When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.

Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.