“You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
“Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.”
~ Ramana Maharshi
“Beyond the mind, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.
In peace and silence, the skin of the ‘I’ dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.”
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
“When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.”
~ Gangaji
“There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”
~ Rumi
“Silence is not the absence of sound. Silence is the absence of you.”
~ Wu Hsin
“The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts.
Everything that you can ever imagine that you want to be, you already are. You are the imperishable Self, beyond birth, beyond death, beyond experiences, beyond doubts, beyond opinions, beyond whatever it is your body is going through. Whatever thoughts your mind thinks, you are beyond that. You are the silence, the silence of the heart.
When you sit in the silence, it will come to you. You will see how the body came to be, and how the body goes, and a new body comes to be, and a new body goes. But you are alive. The real You persists. Nothing can ever destroy it. Water cannot drown it. Fire cannot burn it. Whatever happens to the body in this world cannot eliminate the ‘I am’. It has nothing to do with your age, or whether you’re well or sick, or rich or poor. It is the Self. It has always been and it will always be. It is YOU.
It’s in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works.”
~ Robert Adams
“When you can bear your own silence, you are free.
There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world.”
~ Mooji
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
~ Ram Dass
“Stop the noise in your mind in order for the wondrous sounds of life to be heard.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“It was long before dawn when the sharp cry of a bird woke up the night for an instant and the light of that cry faded away. And the trees remained dark, motionless, melting into the air; it was a soft quiet night, endlessly alive; it was awake, there was movement; there was a deep stirring with utter silence. Even the village next door, with its many dogs, always barking, was quiet. It was a strange stillness, terribly potent, destructively alive. It was so alive and still that you were afraid to move; so your body froze into immobility and the brain, which had awakened with that sharp cry of the bird, had become still, with heightened sensitivity. It was a brilliant night with the stars in a cloudless sky; they seemed so close and the Southern Cross was just over the trees, sparkling in the warm air. Everything was very quiet.
What was necessary was a very sensitive, alert mind which had stopped entirely, willingly and easily, its chatter. It had become very quiet, seeing and listening without interpreting, without classifying; it was quiet and there was no entity or necessity to make it quiet. The mind was very still and very alive. That immensity filled the night and there was bliss.”
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
