Silence Quotes - Page 5

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

Silence is so accurate.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.

When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!