"I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard."
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"Talkers are no good doers."
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"Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence."
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"When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning."
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"There is a state when words cease and silence prevails."
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"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."
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"The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence."
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"Silence is an ornament for women."
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"Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself."
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"We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them."
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"Worse even than your maddening song, your silence."
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"Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe."
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"In Silence there is eloquence."
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"Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes."
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"Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea."
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"A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence."
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"The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence"
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"My greatest weapon is mute prayer."
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"The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver."
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"Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight."
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