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• What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.

  Alexey Leonov

  Stars, Moving, Heart

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• Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Native American, Mind

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• In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wise, Journey, Hiking

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Wave Of Life, Asking For Help, Practice

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.

  David A. Cooper

  Spiritual, Kindness, Simple

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• Children, when we go to the temple, do not hurry to have darshan, then make some offering and return home in a hurry. We should stand there patiently in silence for some time and try to visualize the beloved deity in our hearts. If possible, we should sit down and meditate. At each step, remember to do japa. Amma doesn't say that the offerings and worship are not necessary, but of all the offerings we make, what the Lord wants most is our hearts!

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Home

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• Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit
  Digging a ditch where silence lives
  Digging a ditch for when I'm old
  Digging this ditch my story's told
  Where all these troubles weigh down on me will rise .....
  Where all these questions spinning round my head will die

  Dave Matthews

  Giving, Digging, Stories

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• Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.

  Marge Piercy

  Writing, Risk, Becoming

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• If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.

  James Lee Burke

  Writing, Worry, Pieces

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• There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable.

  Nick Hexum

  Sadness, Comfort, Comfortable

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• All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Desire, Veils, Movement

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• [On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Death

  "Fictional character: Cleopatra". "Cleopatra", June 12, 1963.

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• I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

  Stevie Smith

  Friendship, Friendly, Found

  Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.734, Faber & Faber

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• Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

  John Larroquette

  Thinking, Boys, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Ends, Notes, Middle

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• Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

  Robin Gibb

  Air, People, Feels

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

  Annie Baker

  Talking, Play, People

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• For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

  Bob Barr

  Long, Liberty, Civil Liberties

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• Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

  Craig Reucassel

  Gross, Misinterpretation, Statements

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• There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

  Wes Borland

  Funny, May, Littles

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• I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

  Billy Childish

  Cds, Play, Wire

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• When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Good Man, Censorship

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

  Elliott Carter

  Order, Movement, Duos

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• I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.

  Agyness Deyn

  Texas, Paris, Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

  Jay Griffiths

  Children, Unhappy, Language

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