Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness…

“Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come…

— Anne LeClaire

Silence is the absence of words that mean so much to deafened ears who wait so long and never hear. Silence is the absence…

— Anonymous

Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human…

— John Ralston Saul

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

— Anthony de Mello

“And it is hard, I imagine, for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of that silence and how the absence…

— Daisy Hernandez

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at…

— Kenneth Turan

Silence is not the absence of anything, but the presence of everything.

— Swami Premodaya

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

— Sanford Meisner

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

— Thomas Moore

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

— Julius Lester

“Silence is not absence. It is waiting.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension of thinking,…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence, out of…

— Rajneesh

“Silence, along with the attention it fosters, is our anchor to the present, to the here and now.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes