Quotes About Silence And Meditation

#1. Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Isaac Newton

#2. Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.

Debbie Ford

#3. 'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered.

Naturi Naughton

#4. Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

Nhat Hanh

#5. The insights we receive when going silent, it's our gift to ourselves. Returning and living them, sharing them, that is our gift to the world.

Kamal Ravikant

#6. Breathe and Be Reborn
Into the Lightness
Of your Heart and Inner Truths.
Speak ...
in the Silence of Dreams,
Knowing the words
Bring the peace into your Soul.
Radiant the Love that is your True Self
and Again ...
Be Reborn.

Jennifer Hillman

#7. With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.

Alaric Hutchinson

#8. One way to access the field is through the daily practice of silence, meditation, and non-judgment. Spending time in nature will also give you access to the qualities inherent in the field: infinite creativity, freedom, and bliss.

Deepak Chopra

#9. Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#10. The inner being is not only the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, it is the door to the whole.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#11. By and by ... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

Rajneesh

#12. Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love, joy, acceptance, sincerity, truth, silence and oneness.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#13. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.

Anne D. LeClaire

#14. Meditation. That's the key. Supposedly. Calming your mind ind total silence. Understanding your connection to the natural world and all that. You do that, and you can hear it. All the talking.

Colin Meloy

#15. In silence, our senses come alive...
We see the beauty around us more clearly, learn to listen to the language of silence, touch and smell the earth so pure and taste the sweetness of the air we breathe.

Margo Vader

#16. Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you - silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to bring it out in life. Share it, because everything shared grows fast.

Rajneesh

#17. Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.

Ellen DeGeneres

#18. We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

Samael Aun Weor

#19. The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation; and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!"
The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must have intended. It shocked Nan for a split second into a state of not-thinking, just being-
Suddenly, all in an instant she and Neville were one.

Mercedes Lackey

#21. The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.

John Main

#22. You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.

Joyce Carol Oates

#23. Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

Rajneesh

#24. Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.

Rajneesh

#25. Sexuality is the door to love, and love is the door to silence, to the divine.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#26. Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#27. Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.

Amit Ray

#28. During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and being one with the wind is like listening to the celestial music.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#29. A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

Thomas Moore

#30. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

C.S. Lewis

#31. In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

C.S. Lewis

#32. You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

Grenville Kleiser

#33. Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause - and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you can freeze the flow that is your life, and be fully conscious for a moment.

Kevin Michel

#34. The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#35. Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

Sri Chinmoy

#36. Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

Benjamin Hoff

#37. In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
In Illumination, all things appear as is.
Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.

Sheng Yen

#38. Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#39. Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

Amit Ray

#40. Several things can throw me into that space where I feel energetic and peaceful at the same moment - often things that force me to utilize all my senses. Sunshine does it for me. Music for sure, singing, and dancing. Conscious breathing. Nature. Silence. Meditation. Sport is a great one.

Richard Brancatisano

#41. Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

Amit Ray

#42. Will and Love practiced
to invoke her Majesty Kundalini
In the world where Adepts die and bloom as Lotuses
The perfection of Union is Silence

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#43. I tend to avoid people who always have something to say ... and those who expect me to always have something to say.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#44. Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#45. Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#46. When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

Stephen Richards

#47. Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.

Deepak Chopra

#48. The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind.

Ajahn Brahm

#49. The spirit world is able to get through to you easily when your mind is still and clear. Meditation is often referred to as 'sitting in the silence.' Whenever you want to reach Spirit from this side of life, start by sitting in the silence.

James Van Praagh

#50. [M]editation is not just being silent - that is only one part of it ... [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of this world.

Rajneesh

#51. Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

Guru Nanak

#52. 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 bringing you more love, it will bring to you more anger. Instead of silence and peace, it will bring more traffic of thoughts.

Rajneesh

#53. The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.

Amit Ray

#54. Your heart is the roots to God.
Your heart is nourished by truth, by God, but you have forgotten the heart.
Come back to the heart, and you will be able to know the truth.
You will be able to know the truth as the truth and the false as the false.

Swami Dhyan Giten