Top 100 Silence Mind Quotes
#1. The ocean tries to flood a boat, fire wants to eat the wood, the mind wills to regret, and silence shapes a landscape more deftly than sound - all of that was true.
Christopher Bollen
#2. 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
#3. To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: Loneliness is a type of violence.
Jonathan Messinger
#4. You are never alone,
your Angels always whisper to your heart.
By silencing your mind,
you can be filled with their Love.
Human Angels
#5. The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#6. The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.
Guy Finley
#7. As i sit here in a chaotic
silence of the roaming
ocean in my
mind,
the only think that puts me at
ease is the memory
of you staring back at
me.
you coiled my fears by letting
me
inside of the gully of your eyes.
Zuky Rose Leigh
#8. To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.
Eric Maisel
#9. The key is to silence the mind long enough to tune into the intuition of the heart.
Steven Redhead
#10. Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
Patanjali
#11. Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.
Deepak Chopra
#12. Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.
Cat Stevens
#13. Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.
Tanya Huff
#14. Patterns that Arthur knew, rough blobby shapes that were as familiar to him as the shapes of words, part of the furniture of his mind. For a few seconds he sat in stunned silence as the images rushed around his mind and tried to find somewhere to settle down and make sense ...
Douglas Adams
#15. With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.
Alaric Hutchinson
#16. All it needed was me, and my fear. Because alone in the silence, in the unfathomable darkness, I knew that my own thoughts would drive me mad. My own mind would kill me.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#17. There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our mind is in silence, then the new arrives.
Samael Aun Weor
#18. The secret strength of things
Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome
Of Heaven is as a column, rests on thee,
And what were thou and Earth and Stars and Sea
If to the human mind's imaginings
Silence and solitude were Vacancy?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#19. You are the silence and madness of my mind.
Nessie Q.
#20. Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#21. The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind
Caroline Myss
#23. There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
Sri Aurobindo
#24. Silence is the language of the cosmos. From the smallest stone to the sun itself, they all communicate through silence, greatly rich with meaning and deep, very deep. In order to understand it, we need to have a special mind.
Anu Lal
#25. There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant.
Joan Didion
#26. We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.
Robert Morley
#27. When the mind is silent, you can listen to your heart and remember that everything is Love and that you are that Love.
Human Angels
#28. Oh, sir!" Lord Teddie bounced on his feet. "Sir, I read about this sort of thing once, sir! The only way to solve it is to kill both of them. It was in the Bible!"
The silence rung. Lord Teddie cowered at the King's look.
"Ah, never mind," he said.
Heather Dixon
#29. I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.
Jane Hirshfield
#30. Do not spend your energy in talking, but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state, you are unconscious of it.
Swami Vivekananda
#31. To know him
If you want to know his heart, pay close attention to what angers him.
If you want to know his mind, listen for the words that linger in his silence.
If you want to know his soul, look to where his eyes are when you catch him smiling.
Lang Leav
#32. Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The kundalini shakti - the supreme energy of the divine - will take you there.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#33. Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#34. 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
#35. Four billion people on this earth
but my imagination is still the same.
It's bad with large numbers.
It's still taken by particularity.
It flits in the dark like a flashlight,
illuminating only random faces
while all the rest go by,
never coming to mind and never really missed.
Wislawa Szymborska
#36. Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.
Rajneesh
#37. Cave is a good word ... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations ...
Mark Twain
#38. The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.
Madeleine Thien
#39. True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
#40. There's no doubt in my mind that he wants this and that he loves you, Sam, but sometimes even the strongest feelings in our hearts can't silence the demons in our head.
Beth Rinyu
#41. In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely impotent in the face of awareness. And because the mind is absolutely impotent, your whole being is in a profound silence - the peace that passeth understanding.
Rajneesh
#42. In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
Adyashanti
#43. Nothing could be further from the truth. But in a world dedicated to distraction, silence and stillness terrify us; we protect ourselves from them with noise and frantic busyness. Looking into the nature of our mind is the last thing we would dare to do. Sometimes I think we don't want to
Sogyal Rinpoche
#44. ...there is something which impresses the mind with awe in the shade and silence of these vast forests. In the deep solitude, alone with nature, we converse with God.
Thaddeus Mason Harris
#45. There is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind.
Washington Irving
#46. The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.
Leon Brown
#47. Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
Pythagoras
#48. That smell - cigarette - it always made me think of him. He smoked his cigarette. I drove. I didn't mind the silence and the desert and the cloudless sky. What did words matter to a desert?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#49. because I'm terrible at almost everything else in life. Take walking or talking, for instance, never mind attempting both at the same time. Or smiling. Or not being weird. Or not creeping people out. Or not being the cause of every awkward silence in a five-mile radius.
L. H. Cosway
#50. The point is, what separates finishers from quitters in any aspect of life is that finishers know how to silence the mind when it kicks up those demons of doubt.
John Joseph
#51. True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.
Nur Sakinah Thomas
#52. Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade.
James Shirley
#53. Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.
Ram Dass
#54. When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself
Lao-Tzu
#55. It is when you are at your lowest, when you are broken and fearful of change, that you must learn to silence the voices of caution in your mind and leap forth to continue on your journey, further than you thought possible, and pounce on that prize you seek.
S.A. Bouraleh
#56. Mind can hear a song sung by heart
when no sound is heard by the ears.
Toba Beta
#57. Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.
Ken Cohen
#58. In the deep dark silence, my mind dances with the moonlight and feels the joy of this precious ephemeral life.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Meanwhile the Mind of Pittance watched over them, and looked out into the resounding silence and the sun-freckled darkness of the spaces between the stars, forever content and ineffably satisfied with the absence of anything remotely interesting happening.
Iain M. Banks
#61. This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment.
All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it.
It doesn't know where to find it.
Adyashanti
#62. Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.
Manprit Kaur
#63. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to sit over here with my throbbing feet and bleed in silence until we get to our destination. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. Quite often it's not about what is said, but what isn't. And even when it's spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind.
T.F. Hodge
#65. I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.
Azar Nafisi
#66. Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
Philip Roth
#67. To think is to have doubt ... yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought" ... eventually.
Vivian Amis
#68. Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence.
Jennifer Worth
#69. Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books ... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
Agnes Smedley
#70. 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
#71. Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.
Eckhart Tolle
#72. Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
Philip Roth
#73. Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
Sri Aurobindo
#74. When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.
Frederick Lenz
#75. When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it off. I wouldn't say that about 'Beautiful Mind.' It's a good movie, but I'm much more in awe of what Jonathan Demme did with 'Silence of the Lambs.'
Toby Emmerich
#76. To get inspiration, go to the nature; for silence, go to the nature; to question the meaning of life, go to the nature; to feel the existence, go to the nature; to protect your mind, to reach the truth, to think about the universe go to the nature!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#77. If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
Peter McWilliams
#78. there is an interior dimension to silence, a sort of stillness of heart and mind which is not a void but a rich space.
Sara Maitland
#79. Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.
Kabira
#80. Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
Sri Aurobindo
#81. The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
Jay Griffiths
#82. Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.
Robert Muller
#83. Silence, and then Eve said, Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.
Rachel Caine
#84. A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
Robert McKee
#85. Only in the silence of our mind are we One.
Vivian Amis
#86. If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
Alice Walker
#87. They love the country, and none else, who seek
For their own sake its silence and its shade.
Delights which who would leave, that has a heart
Susceptible of pity, or a mind
Cultured and capable of sober thought.
William Cowper
#88. To preserve the silence within
amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens
no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
Dag Hammarskjold
#89. My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#90. The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run.
Caroline Hanson
#91. When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.
Minor White
#92. Life is a song made of the musical rhythm of the body, words of the mind and the melodious silence of the soul.
Banani Ray
#93. To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.
Rajneesh
#94. Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.
John Larroquette
#95. Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#96. 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
#97. If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt.
Robert J. Braathe
#98. In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.
Terence McKenna
#99. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#100. The voice of the Soul can be heard within the silence of the unaffected mind. Listen.
Ka Chinery
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