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• Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

  Norman Cousins

  Differences, Serenity, Silence

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• The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Prayer, Silence, Form

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• We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

  Agnes de Mille

  Thinking, Silence, Faces

  "America dances".

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• Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and deed. Yes,become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

  Leonard Peltier

  Horse, Crazy, Native American

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.216, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

  Anton Yelchin

  Silence, Culture, Uncomfortable

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• I have a way of dealing with situations where I come off awkward, or people think I’m purposely trying to make things uncomfortable. But normally I’m talking really slowly or there’s a lot of silence because there’s just nothing going on. I’m just totally freaking out, but from the outside perspective it looks like I’m in control.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Silence

  Bob Monkhouse (1991). “The complete speaker's handbook”

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• The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

  Gertrud von Le Fort

  Our World, Silence, Noise

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• We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when silence begins—it is only afterward that we realize what we have been a part of. In the night journeys of Canada geese, it is the silence that propels them. Thomas Merton writes, “Silence is the strength of our interior life.… If we fill our lives with silence, then we will live in hope.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Reflection, Night

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.193, Vintage

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• Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Writing, Silence

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

  Sanford Meisner

  Silence, Absence, Theater

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.29, Vintage

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• Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

  Maxim Gorky

  Simple, Silence, Speak

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “Twenty-Six and One: And Other Stories”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Waiting

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• Silence is a protective coating over pain.

  E. Lockhart

  Pain, Silence, Protective

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.45, Delacorte Press

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• Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

  Claude Debussy

  Dance, Silence, Steps

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• True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions - may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are.

  Gangaji

  Simple, People, Joy

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• Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

  Martha Grimes

  Silence, Way, Okay

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• Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Silence, Speech

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from May 18, 2012

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• Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.

  Ron McLarty

  Silence, Way, Sometimes

  Ron McLarty (2007). “Traveler”, p.65, Penguin

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• The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me.

  Karl Rahner

  Silence, Dying, Trying

  Karl Rahner (1980). “The Heart of Rahner”, Burns & Oates

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• I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

  Zell Miller

  Believe, Yellow, Silence

  Zell Miller (2005). “Zell Miller A Senator Speaks Out on Patriotism Values and Character”, p.49, Xulon Press

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• There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

  Gregory Bateson

  Music, Silence, Listening

  Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson (1987). “Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Music, Home, Silence

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• Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Morning, Silence

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• Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Silence, Great Power

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2001). “My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging”, p.211, Penguin

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