Great Silence Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens…
— Antonio Machado
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Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into…
— David Steindl-Rast
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Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind…
— Rajneesh
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The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane…
— Frances Densmore
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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
— Aime Cesaire
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The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and…
— Michel de Certeau
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A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,
— Bernie Krause
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Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use…
— Rumi
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There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
— Adyashanti
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Souls of prayer are souls of great silence
— Mother Teresa
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What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I…
— Alexey Leonov
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Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now…
— Donald E. Williams, Jr.
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know…
— Mother Teresa
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The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.
— Miley Cyrus
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Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born,…
— Rajneesh
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Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of…
— Kent Nerburn
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She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great…
— Michael Ende
Who Wrote These Great Silence Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 20 Great Silence Quotes as follows: