Quotes About Silence

From the highest branch he watches and waits. The horned owl keeps secrets.

Blind date' is code for 'We met online and don't want to talk about it.

No. Silence is something. This is nothing. Why couldn't I hear it before? I think it has been there always. From the beginning of time.' He put out his hand and stubbed it on my arm, stared at it. 'At the end of the world, at the beginning of the world; under the sea and over the sky; at the root and crown of the universe: nothing. At all. That's what I heard. What I hear.' He leaned forward. 'Do you understand?

All my years of childhood and marital masturbation were about not getting caught. I'd trained myself to come fast while remaining silent. When I was with a lover, I avoided heavy breathing, barely moved my body, and never broke out in a sweat. In order to have "ladylike orgasms," I always held back because, basically, I was embarrassed about sex. All my fear and embarrassment gradually disappeared after I made a decision to embrace sexuality

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We all have a sphere of influence. Each of us needs to find our own sources of courage so that we can begin to speak. There are many problems to address, and we cannot avoid them indefinitely. We cannot continue to be silent. We must begin to speak, knowing that words alone are insufficient. But I have seen that meaningful dialogue can lead to effective action. Change is possible.

For many people of color, learning to break the silence is a survival issue. To remain silent would be to disconnect from her own experience, to swallow and internalize her own oppression.The cost of silence is too high.

Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don't go away, they just go unasked.

What if I make a mistake?' you may be thinking. 'Racism is a volatile issue, and I don't want to say or do the wrong thing.' In almost forty years of teaching and leading workshops about racism, I have made many mistakes. I have found that a sincere apology and a genuine desire to learn from one's mistakes is usually rewarded with forgiveness. If we wait for perfection, we will never break the silence. The cycle of racism will continue uninterrupted.

The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.

The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.

Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you—silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to bring it out in life. Share it, because everything shared grows fast.

The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.

If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.

The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.

By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down

Dil bu karanl???n içinde ya?ayabilirmi? gibi görünen tek ?ey olacak.

Gece yava? yava? geliyor, ?niyor. Çukur yerlere dolma?a ba?lad? bile. ... Dil bu karanl???n içinde ya?ayabilirmi? gibi görünen tek ?ey olacak. Hiçbir a??rl???n, hiçbir gerçekli?in kalmad??? bu yerde. Karanl???n gerçekli?e benzer tek yan?, konu?abilmesi olacak.

People with nothing to say tend to go into public speaking.

Bull stares into the hazy distance as though the right words are out there somewhere and all he has to do is claim them as his own. Sometimes it gets so quiet in Gungee you can hear conversations from a hundred years ago breathing on a gust of wind.