Quotes About Silence

Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, every word.

draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence.

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself. You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness.

La no-mente es conciencia sin pensamiento. Sólo la no-mente permite pensar creativamente, porque da al pensamiento un poder real.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds.

No relationship can thrive without the sense of spaciousness that comes with stillness. Meditate or spend silent time in nature together. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable with being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be receptive to the stillness that is already there, but is usually obscured by mental noise.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing, the same nothing. They are an externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence. Most humans are completely unconscious of this dimension. There is no inner space, no stillness. They are out of balance. [...] They identify exclusively with their own physical and psychological form, unconscious of essence.

Oír el silencio, dondequiera que esté, es una forma fácil y directa de hacerse presente. Incluso si hay ruido, hay siempre silencio bajo y entre los sonidos.

The monks walked on in silence. Five hours later, as they were approaching the lodging temple, Ekido couldn't restrain himself any longer. 'Why did you carry that girl across the road?' he asked. 'We monks are not supposed to do things like that.' 'I put the girl down hours ago,' said Tanzan. 'Are you still carrying her?

I love the Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment as "the end of suffering." There is nothing superhuman in that, is there? Of course, as a definition, it is incomplete. It only tells you what enlightenment is not: no suffering. But what's left when there is no more suffering? The Buddha is silent on that, and his silence implies that you'll have to find out for yourself.

You have it already. You just can't feel it because your mind is making too much noise.

allow nature to teach you stillness

Now consider this: If there were nothing but silence, it wouldn't exist for you; you wouldn't know what it is. Only when sound appears does silence come into being.

Después, la gente venía ocasionalmente a mí y me decía: "Quiero lo que usted tiene. ¿Puede dármelo o mostrarme cómo lograrlo?" Y yo decía: "Usted ya lo tiene. Sólo que no puede sentirlo porque su mente hace demasiado ruido".

Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be.

Me encanta la sencilla definición de la iluminación dada por Buda como "el fin del sufrimiento". No hay nada sobrehumano en esto, ¿cierto? Por supuesto, como toda definición, es incompleta. Sólo dice lo que la iluminación no es: no es sufrimiento. ¿Pero qué queda cuando ya no hay sufrimiento? El Buda no habla sobre esto y su silencio implica que usted tiene que averiguarlo por sí mismo.

Just as space enables all things to exist and just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are. We could say God if the word had not been so misused. I prefer to call it Being. Being is prior to existence. Existence is form, content, what happens. Existence is the foreground of life; Being is the background, as it were.

Sólo cuando aparece el sonido el silencio empieza a ser.

Mõistus vaikib suure ilu jalge ees.

True intelligence operates silently.

You are never more essentially yourself, than when you are still

It has been said: "Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.

Todos los artistas verdaderos, lo sepan o no, crean desde un lugar de no-mente, de quietud interior. La mente entonces da forma a la visión o impulso creativo. Incluso los grandes científicos han dicho que sus grandes logros creativos llegaron en un momento de quietud mental.