Exterior silence is not to speak.
Inner silence is not to think.
-Hariharananda
Three Silences there are:
the first of speech,
The second of desire,
the third of thought.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
-Alfred Brendel
Inner silence means having the ability
to perceive the feather's weight of the subtlest thoughts
that can arise in the mind.
-David A. Cooper
Higher than the original syllable is the point,
the echo higher than this;
the syllable vanishes with the sound,
the highest state is silent.
-Dhyanabindu Upanishad
Silence is a state totally outside the machinery of the mind.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
To restore silence is the role of objects.
-Samuel Beckett
Noise ends,
but silence is penetrating and without end.
-Jiddu Kirshnamurti
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal silence:
-William Wordsworth
Every person needs a retreat,
a "dynamo" of silence,
where he may of the the exclusive purpose
of being newly recharged by the Infinite.
-Yogananda
Though the wave of words is forever upon us
yet our depth is forever silent.
-Kahlil Gibran
-William Wordsworth
Every person needs a retreat,
a "dynamo" of silence,
where he may of the the exclusive purpose
of being newly recharged by the Infinite.
-Yogananda
Though the wave of words is forever upon us
yet our depth is forever silent.
-Kahlil Gibran
I never saw any lamp
shining more brightly
than the lamp of silence.
We believe profoundly in silence -
the sign of perfect equilibrium.
Silence is the absolute poise
of balance of body, mind, and spirit.
Those who can preserve their selfhood
ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence
- not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree;
not a ripple upon the shining pool -
those, in the mind of the person of nature,
possess the ideal attitude and conduct of life.
-Charles Alexander Eastman, "Ohiyesa"
shining more brightly
than the lamp of silence.
We believe profoundly in silence -
the sign of perfect equilibrium.
Silence is the absolute poise
of balance of body, mind, and spirit.
Those who can preserve their selfhood
ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence
- not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree;
not a ripple upon the shining pool -
those, in the mind of the person of nature,
possess the ideal attitude and conduct of life.
-Charles Alexander Eastman, "Ohiyesa"
Silence is the natural state of the Self.
As such, it is not increased by any practice;
nothing can be added to it or taken away from it.
Being the transcendental field of life,
it outstrips all barriers and can contain all sounds,
whilst simultaneously lying ever beyond them.
And when that great inclusive silence has become your own being,
whatever your mind may be engaged in,
whether talking, laughing, crying and shouting out loud, - it will not leave you.
It is your eternal companion,
whether the mind is awake or dreaming or suspended in deep sleep.
This has nothing to do with keeping your mouth closed.
-Shankara
