Silence Quotes - Page 77

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

Silence, nothing is better.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

I go scuba diving. I ski. Watch movies. I take a week of silence every three months in the wilderness. And, besides, I have fun all the time anyway.

Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.

The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.

There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.

Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.

I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.

Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine. "Mine," he repeated when she sighed heavily. "No one else's." Silence. Only the warm wetness of her tears dampening his shirt. It broke his heart.

The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.

The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.