“Silence says everything”
Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life
“The more you turn inward, the more available the sacred becomes. when you sit in. silence and turn your gaze toward the holy mystery you once called God, the mystery follows you back out into the world. When you walk with purposeful focus on breath and birdsong, your breathing and the twitter of the chickadee reveal themselves as miracles. .”
Source: Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
“This silence was woven of many sounds: of long soft owl calls, of tree frogs’ voices, of invisible wings fluttering past a window, and above all the delicate, ceaseless breathing of the woods.”
Source: Then There Were Five
“There is a special kind of silence when you live alone. it hangs around, waiting for you to find it. You try to cover it up with all sorts of other noises, but always there, at the end of everything else, expecting you.”
Source: Three Things About Elsie
“If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.”
“I feel it. I would express if it I could- but as you well know I am no orator.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Beneath the falling snow in silence is the sudden awakening and the river wakes into itself again.....”
“What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry.”
Source: The City & the City
“I am the loudest when I am silent.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Silence is sound that cannot be measured.”
Source: Trees by the river