Silence Is Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 the best substitute for brains ever invented.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Silence, Brain, Substitutes

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Home, Space, Silence

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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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• The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Silence, Different

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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 very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Silence, Important, Notes

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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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• Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin.  The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip.  What a shock to our complacency- that everything of us by nature belongs to sin.  Our silences belong to sin, our omissions belong to sin, our talents belong to sin, our actions belong to sin.  Every facet of our personalities belong to sin; it own us and dominates us.  We are its servants.

  Joel Beeke

  Omission, Silence, Personality

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• If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character."

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Courage, Character, Self

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.23, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

  Melina Marchetta

  Grief, Silence, Majesty

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• When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

  Yukio Mishima

  Silence, Periods, Certain

  Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Silence, Joy

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.48

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• The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.

  Alice Hoffman

  Lying, Voice, Silence

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stress, Blood, Silence

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

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• It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

  Muriel Spark

  White, Silence, Black

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.11, Canongate Books

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• When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best.

  Britney Spears

  Love, Silence, Comfortable

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• The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

  Pete Wentz

  Fighting, Silence, Wish

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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