Quotes About Silence

New York City without

There was a silence

That conversation we were always on the edge of having, runs on in my head..

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't.

To be intimate is to feel the silence, the space that everything is happening in.

Silence reveals itself only to itself. Only when we enter as nothing and stay as nothing, will silence open its secret

379True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states lead only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness.

We have to realize that spirit is an infinite potential that includes everything. And all of our lives are proof that our spiritual nature contains everything at once—that we can become clear or confused, that we can act loving or cruel. How we act and feel depends on how awake we are, and how much we experience that silence, that peace, within.

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states lead only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

Both silent, when there is need, and speaking in season.

She looked just like a painting dying to speak.

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.

Oh, my dear friend, it is impossible not to give oneself away - unless one never opens one's mouth! Speech is the deadliest of revealers.

those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one.

How strange that a girl could trouble your inmost soul so long as she kept her mouth shut, and that the moment she spoke the glamour could vanish as though it had never been.

I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand Lenin's dictum: 'Away with softness.'" I thought of Hercule Poirot's words. "I'm content," I said, "to be human...." We sat there in silence, each of use convinced that the other's point of view was wrong.

If you hadn't anything worth saying why go chattering all the time?

But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

Only cats and witches walk in the dark.

The two words expressed volumes.