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• Silence gives the proper grace to women

  Sophocles

  Giving, Grace

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• To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Unity, Woods

  Thomas Merton (2009). “A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3: 1952-1960”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

  Doris Grumbach

  Air, Ideas, Use

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

  Jason Evert

  Teens, World, Void

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• Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

  John Cage

  Sound, Pregnant

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• The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

  Freya Stark

  Travel, Sea, Mountain

  1948 Perseus in the Wind.

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• It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Rain, Self, Expression

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• There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.

  Philippe Djian

  Two, People, Moments

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• Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

  James Altucher

  Creativity, Thinking, Quiet

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• Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Speech

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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• This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every corner of a room Where can I look? If I close my eyes the silence becomes louder! There is no escape from you The only way out is in

  Spike Milligan

  Eye, Looks, World

  Spike Milligan (1993). “Hidden Words: Collected Poems”

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• Don't fear conflict, fear the silence.

  Ross Parsley

  Conflict

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• If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

  Thomas Merton

  Doe, Bless, Heard

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

  Virginia Woolf

  Two, Chance, Chaos

  Virginia Woolf (1992). “The voyage out”, p.82, Рипол Классик

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• Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

  Josef Pieper

  Art, Culture, Amusement

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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, Needs, Noise

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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, Doe, Argument

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

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• Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Mistake, Simple, World

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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

  Bears, Silent, Reason

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• It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Time, Ill Will, People

  "The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings".

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• We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

  Richard J. Foster

  Two, Solitude, Connections

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is new attentiveness to their needs, new responsiveness to their hurts. Thomas Merton observes, 'It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them.... Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  Richard J. Foster

  Hurt, Brother, Compassion

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• To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak

  Michel Callon

  Names, Firsts, Speak

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• If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

  Richard J. Foster

  Discipline, Missing, Speak

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of shibumi takes the form of sabi, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where shibumi emerges as wabi, it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming.

  Trevanian

  Spiritual, Art, Real

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.77, Broadway Books

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