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• A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not like to chatter, you would like to just hold their hand and live and be silent in that moment. If you chatter, that means you are avoiding the person - love is not really there. If you love life, chattering will drop, because every moment is so filled with life that there is no way, no space to chatter. Each moment life is flooding you so vitally - where is the time to gossip and chatter?

  Rajneesh

  Love, Mean, Hands

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• Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin.  The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip.  What a shock to our complacency- that everything of us by nature belongs to sin.  Our silences belong to sin, our omissions belong to sin, our talents belong to sin, our actions belong to sin.  Every facet of our personalities belong to sin; it own us and dominates us.  We are its servants.

  Joel Beeke

  Omission, Silence, Personality

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• Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Creative, Meditation, Silence

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• On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Death, Saying Goodbye

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• silence is the most intolerable of answers.

  Mason Cooley

  Silence, Answers

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• The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.

  Annie Dillard

  Prayer, Wings, Water

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• and silence is the golden mountain

  Jack Kerouac

  Silence, Mountain, Golden

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.71, Penguin

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• Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Silence, Understanding, Divinity

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• A time comes when silence is betrayal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Betrayal, Memorable

  "Beyond Vietnam". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at Riverside Church in New York City, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. April 4, 1967.

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• The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Silence, Quiet

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4823, Delphi Classics

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• Silence is so freaking loud

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Silence, Loud

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 6, 2006.

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• If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

  Enoch Powell

  Silence, My Friends, Ifs

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• A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Religious, Silence, Moments

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• Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Silence, Buttons, Amir

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.164, A&C Black

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• Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

  Marlee Matlin

  Silence, World, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

  Diane Setterfield

  Silence, Needs, Stories

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-" "I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said.

  Loretta Chase

  Silence, Judgement, Nephew

  Loretta Chase (2015). “Lord Perfect: Number 3 in series”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.

  Rajneesh

  Silence, Born, Given

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• There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Communication, Silence, Sacred

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• Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows the practice of conscious breathing to become deep and effective. Like still water that reflects things as they are, the calming silence helps us to see things more clearly, and therefore, to be in deeper contact with ourselves and those around us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Breathing, Water

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• Silence is the medium of source between you and your ego consciousness.

  Gopichand Lagadapati

  Silence, Ego, Consciousness

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2013

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• Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Silence, World, Speech

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• Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.

  Ken Cohen

  Meaningful, Truth, Silence

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• Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

  Epictetus

  Silence, Few Words

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Silence is the best answer to a fool.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Wise, Silence, Answers

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