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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Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come;
For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come;
For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space read more
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when
it is made the reply to calumny read more
But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when
it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we
give no just occasion for them.
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves
together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and read more
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves
together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and
majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth
to rule.
