In the seventh century, Isaac the Syrian wrote about ‘stillness,’ which in his writings has been summarized as ‘a deliberate denial of the gift of words for the sake of achieving inner silence, in the...

You whispered softly in the ear of my joyous heart.You know what’s on my mind, you’ve heard my thoughts.I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

Sometimes knowing is torture. You wish you could hide your secret away in a dark, cobwebby shed, shut the door, and break the key in the lock, so no one can ever get in again....

In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I” – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence.

In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends...

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.

when the presence is like thunderstorm , the absence prevail deep dark silence.

I am speechless: what can I answer?I put hand on my mouth.I have said too much already;now I will speak no more.

Author refers to, “short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

come, ancient and unchanging nightNight, born as dethroned king,Night, internally equal to silence, Night.With sequins of volatile starlightWoven on your robe with infinityCome quietlyCome fleet-footedCome alone.

Sure thing, Gumdrop.

the silence of God is God.

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the...

…silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.

To silence the love, it takes a deaf. (Pour taire l’amour, – Il faut un sourd)

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

In the very center of your being, life begins in silence and in joy.

Thinking belongs to duality. Love belongs to the Oneness. There is no thought without judgment, there is no Unconditional Love without the silence of the mind.

I am so exhausted and bored of my life. I should try something extreme, it must promise a lot of fear and pain but end with eternal silence, like suicide.

Your very silence shows you agree.

At times, productivity means doing nothing at all.

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many...

I put the sing in single—especially when I’m in the shower. Does anybody have any requests they’d like to shout out while the water’s getting hot? As always, silence all cell phones during the duration...

Sometimes during our lives, the Universe ensures that we come back into the silence. If we don’t consciously stop in our busy lives, we may have perceptively negative things happen in our lives, sickness, change,...

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

The silence sounded like a fire alarm in my ears.

The very first part in healing is shattering the silence,

Son of Krypton!

The only acceptable alternative to silence is to speak from the heart

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize...

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

silence between two words is an endless road.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

It felt like I was living in two worlds. There was one world which was a daylight world and another dark world (though I’m not saying that everything bad happened in darkness because it didn’t)....

She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.

Would my head were a head of lettuce. I drove the last car over the Sagamore Bridge before the state police closed it off. The Cape Cod Canal all atempest beneath. No cars coming, no...

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of...

I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be...

Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to the grave. Who said that? She couldn’t remember now. But it was true....

I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees outside my open window, whispering...

S Is for Silence

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When you left you left behind a fieldof silent flowers under a sky full of unstirred clouds…you left a million butterfliesmid-silky flutters You left like midnight rain against my dreaming ears Oh and how you...

Silence is most meaningful.

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you’ll come to remember your spirit. When you’re able to transcend an aversion to silence, you’ll also transcend many other miseries....

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.