"In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience."
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"Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two."
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"Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread."
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"The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people"
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"Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself."
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"So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation."
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"Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous."
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"Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure."
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"Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man."
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"The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest."
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"The truth hurts, but silence kills."
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"If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence."
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"To silence gossip, don't repeat it."
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"Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences."
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"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."
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"This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language."
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"Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never."
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"Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy."
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"We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us."
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"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
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