Top 1200 Silence Of The Heart Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence.

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

At times we feel something is going to pierce the silence we are living in; after a while we realize it's the silence.

Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she's breaking her silence, my heart stops.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.

There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.

Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.

It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.

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

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

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.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence.

Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide 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 transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.

Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?

The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor.

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A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

The two heart-grey puddles: two mouthsfull of silence.

Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence, out of this emptiness, arises love, compassion, and out of this silence a possibility for creativity. This silence, this love, this compassion, these are the qualities of meditation.

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion.

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

No one should ever suffer in silence. Bullies thrive in silence.