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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the hear...

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Amit RayOm Chanting and Meditation

The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shu...

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Amit RayOm Chanting and Meditation

Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It is the entire cosmos, whatever we c...

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Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remai...

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Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and exter...

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And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts...

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Men fear silence as they fear solitude because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's not...

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I defendNot my voice, but my silence

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghos...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

I've ceased to smile long ago, The bitter winds now chill my lips, Another hope was just let go, Ano...

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In the woods it was not so much that it was quiet as that the few sounds were loud and distinct, not...

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Anna QuindlenStill Life with Bread Crumbs

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...

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If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky pen...

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Anne CarsonAutobiography of Red

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries ...

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The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were n...

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be...

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I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into ...

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There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish ...

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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Complete Sherlock Holmes

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the pr...

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Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is wher...

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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made ve...

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I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not pr...

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We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed,...

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and when we speak we are afraidour words will not be heardnor welcomedbut when we are silentwe are s...

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Audre LordeThe Black Unicorn: Poems

I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to ...

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My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken,...

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Then the silence came back, that awful silence that seemed to just take over.In that silence I kept ...

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Avi (author)Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we ...

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Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories

What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. Yo...

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Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories

There are so many different forms of silence: the silence that tyrannical states force on their citi...

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Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can ...

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Barbara KingsolverThe Poisonwood Bible

Silence is the mother of truth.

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a dive...

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Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men belie...

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Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes...

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Brennan ManningAbba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise...

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost ...

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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father...

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Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in s...

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A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too lon...

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You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn fr...

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I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimen...

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What are the temples which Roman robbers have reared, - what are the towers in which feudal oppressi...

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, th...

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Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words ...

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Mass media has convinced us to think that silence is only supposed to happen as a manifestation of s...

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I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are...

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Clarice LispectorNear to the Wild Heart

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

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Clarice LispectorThe Passion According to G.H.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best...

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The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a...

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Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remai...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insenti...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.The gray area between yes a...

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Dan BrownThe Da Vinci Code

...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who we...

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Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in vie...

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One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly di...

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There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in ve...

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Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing syst...

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Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fa...

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Deepak ChopraThe Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

Skies are crying,I am watching,Catching teardrops in my hands.Only silence, as it's ending,Like we n...

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I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience g...

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But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his ...

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E. M. ForsterThe Celestial Omnibus and other Stories

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of ...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out ...

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying th...

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Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander,...

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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. S...

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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose...

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Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeli...

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To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their result...

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I never spoke — unless addressed —And then, 'twas brief and low —I could not bear to live — aloud —T...

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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so...

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There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the z...

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