Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.
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These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.
These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; read more
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them read more
The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep,
But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.
All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep,
But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.
Stillborn silence! thou that art
Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
Stillborn silence! thou that art
Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
