


“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.” – William Shakespeare “I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.” – Aeschylus It has a quality and a dimension all its own. I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. “In the silence behind what can be heard lies the answers we have been searching for for so long.” – Andreas Fransson “The more you understand silence, that’s where the balance comes.” – Rick Rubin “Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.” – Charlotte Eriksson Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.” – Sri Chinmoy There is but one teacher who can answer them.

Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.” – Amit Ray “We need silence to be able to reach our Self. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content.” – Helen Keller Be silent, if you choose but when it is necessary, speak – and speak in such a way that people will remember it.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. “Saying nothing sometimes says the most.” – Emily Dickinson “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” – Albert Einstein “What we can’t speak, we say in silence.” – Hillary Jordan 45+ Quotes About Silence and the Quiet | Silence Quotes This is from our Slow it Down class about slowing down and simplifying your life, and getting rid of anxiety. When the deadlines are coming up and meetings are demanding your time and you have one more assignment than the time you were allotted, sometimes you just need to press pause and slow it down. Those little pauses when you can hear your intuition and you just know everything is going to be ok, even if it doesn’t look like it right now. A pause after a tense or stressful event, a refuge from the storm. I can think of a few people throughout my lifetime who have been my quiet place, a shoulder to rest your head on after a long day. Now I walk up to the park near my house and sit under this big tree and write. When I was in college I used to go to this really old church and sit in the velvet-lined pews when no one else was there so I could have a place to think. To find a quiet place, or space, in our day where we can finally exhale the weight of the world and inhale a renewed sense of life. To stop in the middle of the chaos, to not give in to the endless external demands on our time and energy. We ruminate until the guilt eats away at us.īut we always have a choice.
