The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of “I” is false.

I saw that she didn’t want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it’s because there’s something important to be said.

Silence allows people to put thoughts into words. Some people might need several minutes to put thoughts into words. Silence may indicate the person is reflecting on experiences, and he or she may just need...

I did not believe in stalemates. I believed in resolutions, one way or another, and if I found myself on the losing end, so be it. Losing meant quiet, and forgetting quickly, and giving up...

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it’s gone, we notice.

She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at its brightly colored houses. It was as if she understood that...

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

It’s better to shut up and give the impression that you’re stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.

I don’t have a car.”His eyes sliced into mine. “I walked here,” I explained. “I’m on foot.””Angel,” he said in a way that sounded like he sincerely hoped I was joking.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams…

Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of...

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

ye’ve bewitched and bespelled me, my sweet Silence, didn’t ye know? I’ll agree that the sky is pink, that the moon is made o’ marzipan and sugared raisins, and that mermaids swim the muddy waters...

It’s funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don’t know how to speak to you. I don’t know what you’re...

Life is a dash. Pause in the present. Enjoy this moment.

What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.

Silence is not useful any more,

Snow on one side of the canvas, silence on the other. I’d call that a perfect painting.

The world is a cancer eating itself away… I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again...

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

Am I going crazy, or am I the only one who can hear the silence?

Ah, so that’s what silence looks like, huh?”

most times the best things people deserve from us is our silence.Speak through silence and it will be more powerful than harsh words

The governor will not be bullied into silence by a private developer trying to make a buck off public resources.

and only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lovers, when something really needs to be said; silence from a parent when a child needs some word...

Silence is the highest form of meditation.

You have family, only a brother you clearly don’t like to speak about. Fine. That’s all right.” She ran her fingers through her hair. “But don’t ever say dreams are a waste. It’s a miracle...

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

Silence heals.

Habla muy deprisa, como si el silencio la asustara.

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is...

Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

Realize this – your anger with God does not drive a wedge between you and Him. It is your silence that drives the wedge. – Prodigal Life

A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders of religion are actually talking about the same ocean, the same invisible life...

Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to...

Poems are difficult to silence.

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to...

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Quiet is here and all in me. (“Dress of White Silk”)

Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave the regions of our conquest – the...

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Peace is the friend we find in silence.

The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless...

How devastating it is to be thought of as arrogant. Surely, we have known each other long enough and well enough, for her to understand that my silence only reflects my sense of trust and...