"Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence."
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"I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences."
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"True silence is really endless speech."
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"Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence."
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"Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you."
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"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."
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"listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot"
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"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence."
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"Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand."
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"Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend."
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"Silence is also conversation."
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"Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls."
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"There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness."
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"In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it."
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"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."
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"Silence, and non action are the root of all things."
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"I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling."
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"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
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"I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after."
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"To restore silence is the role of objects."
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