Silent Quotes - Page 12

• If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Journey, Perfection

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• When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Mind

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• Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.

  Anthony of Sourozh

  Rain, Humility, Sunshine

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• I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Silent Films, Hollywood Films, Today

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself.

  Guy Pearce

  Struggle, Emotional, Expression

  "In 'The Rover,' Guy Pearce Takes A Bleak Road Trip". "Here and Now" with Jeremy Hobson, nhpr.org. June 18, 2014.

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• People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  People, Gloves, Crowds

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

  David Toop

  Talking, Long, Way

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• It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.

  Isaac Watts

  Passion, Perfect, Mind

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.430

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• Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

  Joan Lindsay

  Hate, War, Dark

  Joan Lindsay (1977). “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, Viking Pr

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• I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Love Is

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.

  Criss Jami

  Humble, Insecure, Order

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

  Criss Jami

  People, Sometimes, Nigeria Independence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami

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• Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

  Criss Jami

  Glowing, Victory, Movement

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.40, Criss Jami

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• If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Religious, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Inward, Dignity

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.38

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• Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

  William Wordsworth

  Hands, Hours, Hope And Faith

  'The River Duddon' (1820) st. 34 'After-Thought'

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• Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

  Honore de Balzac

  Light, Shining, Clay

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• Can thought be silent?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Jiddu Krishnamurti's second public talk in Berkeley, California, February 4, 1969.

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• Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Old Friends, Tears

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.34

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• Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.

  Bill Vaughan

  Uplifting, Morning, Stars

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• 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.

  Blaise Pascal

  Silence, Saint, Plus

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• The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

  Thomas Campion

  Men, Joy, Secret

  Thomas Campion (1907). “Poetical Works (in English) of Thomas Campion”

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• In New York and LA, there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Cutting, Competition

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts To The Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

  Jenny Hval

  Reading, Trying, World

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Cinema, Form

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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