Quotes About Silence

A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

.... When you have no voice, you don't exist

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

Life is classified. There is always so much that goes unsaid.

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

I don't go through life verbalizing what I feel.

I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone

Compared to the way in which final causality has – in actual practice, if not in theory and rhetoric – maintained its grip on biological thinking, the Darwinian "revolution" is a trivial blip on the continued silent and unacknowledged hegemony of Aristotle.

After a momentary silence spakeSome Vessel of a more ungainly Make;"They sneer at me for leaning all awry:What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?"

Our great daystar floods the Earth with fire in this season of summer. The heart of the sun prays at forty million degrees; grant me a heart of such fierce fire as I now begin this new day in an act of devotion and adoration. Wrap me in the silence of your Spirit and lead me into quiet prayer.

I now turn fully to face you, 0 God, the source of the universe and of my life, as I enter into silence.

A wise old owl sat upon an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren't we like that wise old bird

Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.