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title: "2 Silence Compelled Quotes by 1 author"
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> [“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/i-discovered-that-i-felt-at-home-and-alive-in-the-silence-which/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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> [After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/after-a-time-i-found-that-i-could-almost-listen-to-the-silence-which/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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