Silence Quotes - Page 37

Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; Nature's own exceeding peace, which "passes understanding". That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ourselves.

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.

Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind in you, there is great silence. The whole sky of your inner being is without thoughts, without clouds. I call this the state of no-mind. Only in this state of no-mind do you meet existence. And that meeting is the ultimate ecstasy. Once you have tasted it, you will never bother about the future.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

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.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance.

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

When we discover the secret of being inwardly at worship while outwardly at work, we find that the soul's silence brings us to God and God to us. Silence takes us beyond the limits of consciousness and into the heart and mind and will of God.

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a sustained atmosphere of silence.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.