Silence Is Quotes - Page 6

• Silence is so freaking loud

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Silence, Loud

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 6, 2006.

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• Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Home, Space, Silence

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• There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable

  Wayne Dyer

  Silence, Meditation, Valuable

  Wayne Dyer (2002). “Getting in the Gap”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Creative, Meditation, Silence

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• Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

  PZ Myers

  Silence, Addresses, Favors

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• Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks.  It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry.  Silence is solitude practiced in action.

  Henri Nouwen

  Taken, Cells, Discipline

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.23, HarperCollins

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• As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words.  They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm.  But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.

  Henri Nouwen

  Discipline, Silence, Temptation

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.27, HarperCollins

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• Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Silence, Brain, Substitutes

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• Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

  Josh Billings

  Silence, World, Golden

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• Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Safety, Silence, Needs

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.189, Anchor

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• I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.

  Andrea Gibson

  Writing, Air, Practice

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• The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

  Armin Wiebe

  Knowledge, Silence, Needs

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• One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. If we are silent, who will take control? God will take control, but we will never let him take control until we trust him. Silence is intimately related to trust.

  Richard J. Foster

  Silence, Bears, Silent

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• The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

  Charles Wesley

  Christian, Men, Evil

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• Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

  Krista Tippett

  Reality, Silence, Doe

  Krista Tippett (2008). “Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It”, p.45, Penguin

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• Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

  Budd Schulberg

  Silence, Hollywood, Way

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• Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God. In this time of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior recollection so as to receive and keep Jesus in our lives.'

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Voice, Silence

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• Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

  Anthony de Mello

  Self, Silence, Sound

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.126, Image

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• Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Silence, Important, Notes

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• Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Silence, World, Rooftops

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• The applause of silence.
  is the only kind that counts.

  Alfred Jarry

  Silence, Kind, Applause

  Katharine Noel, Alfred Jarry (2007). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr

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• Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

  Alice Fulton

  Silence, Steadfast, Knows

  Alice Fulton (2010). “The Nightingales of Troy”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Listening, Looks

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.87, Sounds True

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• Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Meditation, Mind

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• Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

  Amy Goodman

  Powerful, Responsibility, Helping Others

  "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media". Book by Amy Goodman, 2004.

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