Silence Is Quotes - Page 19

• Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

  Martha Grimes

  Silence, Way, Okay

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• True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions - may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are.

  Gangaji

  Simple, People, Joy

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• Silence is the language of inertia.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Silence, Language, Inertia

  Margaret Heffernan (2011). “Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

  Amit Ray

  Self, Silence, Important

  Amit Ray (2010). “OM Chanting and Meditation”, p.51, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

  Agnes de Mille

  Thinking, Silence, Faces

  "America dances".

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

  Alfred Brendel

  Essence, Silence, Ingredients

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• It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Silence, Sound

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• Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Silence, Movement

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• Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

  Sophocles

  Silence, Ornaments

  "Ajax". 293,

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• Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Symphony, Silence

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• True silence is really endless speech.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Silence, Speech, Endless

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

  Pindar

  Men, Silence, Heed

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• You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Silence, Mountain

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• Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Light, Silence, Blossoming

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• Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

  David Whyte

  Work, Struggle, Silence

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• If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love.

  Thomas Merton

  Religious, Silence, And Love

  Thomas Merton, Robert Inchausti (2007). “Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

  A. M. Rosenthal

  Truth, Lying, Silence

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• In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?

  Rumi

  Names, Silence, Forever

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• The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs to avoid, at all costs, the voice inside her head that would point her toward her calling and her destiny. So she seeks distraction. The amateur prizes shallowness and shuns depth. The culture of Twitter and Facebook is paradise for the amateur.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivational, Destiny, Two

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• A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Silence, Preparation

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• Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

  Ihab Hassan

  Integrity, Silence, Excellence

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• In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
  In Illumination, all things appear as is.
  Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
  The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.

  Sheng-yen

  Illumination, Two, Silence

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• Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Silence, Great Power

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2001). “My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging”, p.211, Penguin

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• Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

  William Penn

  Silence, Folly

  William Penn (1792). “Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.34

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• Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Silence, Tactics, Distrust

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