Quotes About Silence

Family values meant keeping your head down and your voice soft. It meant having dinner on the table by six and your paycheck in his hand every other Friday. It meant keeping secrets that at any time might explode in your face.

All the wonders of life are already here. They're calling you. If you can listen to them, you will be able to stop running. What you need, what we all need, is silence. Stop the noise in your mind in order for the wondrous sounds of life to be heard. Then you can begin to live your life authentically and deeply.

Don't ask me anything more. My essence is wordless.

Saint Macarius said, "It is not necessary to use many words. Only stretch out your arms and say, 'Lord, have pity on me as you desire and as you well know how.

They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.

The original reality of Amitabha is our own Dharma body, It shines out brightly everywhere, in the South, North, East, and West, It is like the autumn moon that lies in the high, vast sky, In the silence of the night its brilliance shines far over the ocean.

A single wise word bringing peace to the listener is worth more than a thousand speeches of empty words.

In silence, the consciousness grows. It aspires to know You more and more perfectly. More Answers From The Mother, vol 17, p.380

When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

Although the whole earth, not we alone, is moved by passions hymeneal, and everything terrestrial has come into being by the one common road, yet there is that ridiculous tendency to close the eyes and turn away the head as if there were something unclean in nature itself. "Conceived in iniquity and born in sin," is the unnatural interpretation put upon the process by the extreme religionist, and the world, by its silence

All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood on a mountain-slope, A scent beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory in one man, – A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.

Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word art. If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.

To be truly present we have to stop our thinking. This is the secret of success.

The basic condition for us to be able to hear the call of beauty and respond to it is silence.

All phenomena are impermanent. They are subject to birth and death. When the notions of birth and death are removed, this silence is called great joy.

It is only when we stop that we can encounter life.

thundering silence, because it's eloquent and powerful.

The essence of Zen is Awakening. This is why one does not talk about Zen, one experiences it .

Most of the time, our head is so full of thoughts that we have no space to listen to ourselves or anyone else.

We have to realize that silence comes from our heart and not from the absence of talk.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Part of the reason people don't talk about their loneliness is that they feel they will be judged for it.

I don't like talking about climbing that much. You don't have to discuss; just do it.

As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.