Top 1200 Silent Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent.

Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense out of experience, to reduce the conglomerates of experience to units of comprehension which we call principles, or ideologies, or concepts. Religious experience is dynamic, fluid, effervescent, yeasty. But the mind can't handle these so it has to imprison religious experience in some way, get it bottled up. Then, when the experience quiets down, the mind draws a bead on it and extracts concepts, notions, dogmas, so that religious experience can make sense to the mind.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That`s exactly the meaning of the word `ecstasy`: to stand out. To stand out of the mind makes you ecstatic, brings bliss to you. And great intelligence is released. When you are identified with the mind you cannot be very intelligent because you become identified with an instrument, you become confined by the instrument and its limitations. And you are unlimited - you are consciousness.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

The words "silent majority" are very descriptive of what is happening with me.

Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.

About love, don't be a silent partner. And be gentle with your anger.

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not. Meditation is the experience: "I am not my body, not my mind - I am the witness of it all." This experience, this transcendental experience, immensely transforms the whole situation. Many things which were driving you crazy simply drop away.

I have always been a silent person and I don't have any jhamela with anyone.

There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.

Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind.

If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you gladly Nor ask more of you. You may sit beside me Silent as a breath Only those who stay dead Shall remember death. And if you come I will be silent Nor speak harsh words to you. I will not ask you why, now. Or how, or what you do. We shall sit here, softly Beneath two different years And the rich earth between us Shall drink our tears.

Silent customers can be deadly. Encourage them to complain.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

History will judge me... I shall remain silent.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them.

Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.

Honestly, I always had the silent ambition of being a director.

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

It's a victory when the weapons fall silent and people speak up.

Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.

I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, Jesus, Moses, Martin Luther King they were all secret heroes in my mind because they stood for what they wanted, what they believed in.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else.

Listen . Keep silent . You are not gods mouthpiece. Try to be an ear.

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

I'm not going to run or be silent for fear of keeping a fan base.

I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken.

In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you!

Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness