Understanding The Silence Quotes

#1. My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would be the first silence that would carry meaning.

Njabulo S. Ndebele

#2. Silence is a time of reflection to bring peace and meaning to your life, and to those around you. This deafening quiescence will mean different things to different people but if they listen carefully, they will understand...

Virginia Alison

#3. We're fascinated by the words
but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

Ram Dass

#4. One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

John O'Donohue

#5. Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine.

Truth Devour

#6. 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

#7. Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.

Mia Sheridan

#8. ..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand.

Sanober Khan

#9. We just sat there on the sofa and looked at each other, a kind of unspoken mutual understanding filling the silence.

Cally Taylor

#10. 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

#11. Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

Rajneesh

#12. I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us.

Huston Smith

#13. 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

#14. Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

Soren Kierkegaard

#15. Any understanding of God that doesn't take into account God's silence is a half truth - in effect, a cruel distortion - and leaves us vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by leaders who are quite willing to fill in the biblical blanks with what the Holy Spirit never tells us.

Eugene H. Peterson

#16. There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.

Steve Hagen

#17. Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence.
"There is much I don't understand."
"That will never change," Mortis said decisively. "Except that what you don't understand will change.

John Barnes

#19. The language of understanding is not the words, but the silence. The language of love is not the promise, but the feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.

Dominique Bouhours

#21. Insects, birds, and small game all chattered, yet for a while, they sat in peace. In an odd way, connection and understanding thrived on the non-words. The forest spoke like God's voice, alive and real, leaving healing and hope in the wake of silence.

Michelle Griep

#22. Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

Bernie Krause

#23. There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.

Anthony Liccione

#24. Fatuous words I don't trust you I trust silence
More than beauty more than anything
A festival of understanding

Frantisek Halas

#25. If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet ... maybe we could understand something.

Federico Fellini

#26. I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.

Emily Murdoch

#27. I ache to hear her tell me she loves me, but forcing her to put words to how she feels pushes her further into the silence she seems comfortable calling home now. I tell myself to be patient and understanding, but inside there's a longing only those words will fill, and it hurts to ignore it.

C.J. Redwine

#28. When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

Bryant McGill

#29. I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence.

Anthony Liccione

#30. It was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.

Ayn Rand

#31. There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

Michele Norris