We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people
Martin Luther King Jr.
You’ve struck oil - stop drilling!
Luke Wilson, Alex and Emma
Silence is so accurate.
Mark Rothko
Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything.
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
Neil Gaiman, Stardust
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d have done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.
Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to lose it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.
Edmond Jabes (via melancholicsoul)
When you’re with stillness, you merge on some level with everything around you. You can’t pin-point where it’s coming from. From inside? From outside? Where? It just is. It is just this moment of peace and stillness. This is what you should be experiencing in your meditation. When you become very good at it, you will have the stillness with you all the time. It doesn’t leave. It never leaves. It is constantly with you—a sense of being. A sense of completion. And a sense of silence. A level of peace is with you at all times.
Swami Sai Premananda (via bodymindandsoul)
Sometimes there aren’t words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.
Jodi Picoult (via thresca)
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