Silence is eternal eloquence

My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence…

— Henry Rollins

The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.

— Anandamayi Ma

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

— Thomas Carlyle

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

— Dallas Willard

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up…

— Sri Aurobindo

Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for…

— Amy Carmichael

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of…

— Carlos Castaneda

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

— Gertrude Stein

“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

— Michel de Montaigne

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

— Blaise Pascal