Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute -… — Rajneesh
Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking,… — Rajneesh
Real music will make you more and more refined. It will become more and more silent. In fact, real music will help you to listen… — Rajneesh
Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune… — Rajneesh
Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics. — Robin Sharma
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears… — Khalil Gibran
I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or… — Thomas Jefferson
Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment. — Rajneesh
I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to… — Rajneesh
Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God. Those who are fortunate enough to come in contact with… — Rajneesh
Only those people are really sane who have transcended the mind, who have gone beyond it into silence where no thoughts, no desires, no emotions,… — Rajneesh
There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all.… — Rajneesh
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
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence… — Rajneesh
Once you know it, you move as a nonbeing. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you happy, unhappy, miserable. No! In that emptiness… — Rajneesh
`Freedom` means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you merge with the whole. And… — Rajneesh
Mind can only desire, and each desire is going to be frustrated. Instead of bringing more meditation, it will bring you more frustration. Instead of… — Rajneesh
God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration. — Rajneesh
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act… — Richard Rohr
Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is… — Rajneesh
Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness with existence -… — Rajneesh
If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only… — Rajneesh
Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is… — Rajneesh
My sannyasins have to be creators, not through the mind but through meditation. And it comes of its own accord, one need not even think… — Rajneesh
Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence, out of this… — Rajneesh

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