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"May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us."
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"Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality."
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"Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence."
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"The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God."
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"Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence."
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"The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'."
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"Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy"
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"Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light."
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"Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea."
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"The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert."
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"His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful."
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"Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!"
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"My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?"
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"Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving."
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"The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact."
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"Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is."
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"Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself."
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"Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself."
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"We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering."
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