Silence Quotes - Page 48

I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.

Even though I'm surrounded by pupils, there is the invisible screen screen between us, and behind the glass wall I am screaming - screaming in my own silence, screaming to be noticed, to be befriended, to be liked.

Worse even than your maddening song, your silence.

In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.

Silence is an ornament for women.

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not what we think or say but what we do shall avail - on with the dance.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a homogenized spirituality, but to birth a radical new sound embedded in the ancient and timeless silence. This doesn't impact or deepen my life-it is my life.

When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute - the screen is empty, the film has disappeared. This is the state of meditation: when there are no thoughts, no feelings - nothing moves, everything stops. There is tremendous serenity. Out of this serenity, silence, peace, a new kind of experience arises, new flowers blossom.

I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.