"Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences."
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"Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves."
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"There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven."
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"Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform."
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"Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow."
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"Silence is better than unmeaning words."
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"Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested."
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"In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom."
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"If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple."
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"I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity."
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"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
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"To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness."
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"I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams."
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"Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart."
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"Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise."
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"When you can bear your own silence, you are free."
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"Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan."
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"There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being."
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"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation."
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"My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated."
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