"The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence."
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"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."
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"Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God."
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"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."
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"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."
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"This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?"
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"Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass."
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"Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly."
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"Experiencing the silence of meditation doesn't have to be complicated. You can lie on the floor with arms and legs outspread, paying attention to the sensations in your body. You can observe the outflow and inflow of your breath. You can also go to a park and let the impressions of nature calm your brain."
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"After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason."
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"It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence."
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"Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much."
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"I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence."
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"It is tact that is golden, not silence."
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"Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss."
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"Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences."
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"If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love."
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"If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence."
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"Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises."
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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator."
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