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“Silence is the last try to tell them everything they didn’t understand when we were speaking”

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Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian film writer known for his profound insights into Egyptian society and culture. His works extensively covered historical, religious, and contemporary social issues, profoundly influencing Egyptian cinema. more

“Joy is the fragrance of meditation. Meditation means becoming more silent. Joy is possible only if we become silent. All that is needed to become silent is awareness. When we become aware and can watch, we find the music of silence.We can watch whatever is happening inside, and the moment it evaporates we are left with a deep silence. Then we have gone beyond, and we have reached beyond time. Then we realize our immortality. Religions have not been able to create a synthesis between silence and joy. They have failed in creating the whole man, because a man can be silent but if he is not joyful his silence becomes cold. Society prefers cold silence, because then you are not a trouble to anyone. Society does not want you to be alive. Society wants you to be an efficient machine. Society is more interested in mechanical efficiency than in human growth. Therefore society goes on preaching to people to be silent and obedient. Then people lose their freedom, intelligence, joy, truth, love and courage.He loses his whole being to become a convenient cog in the wheel of society. The more powerful the society, the establishment, the media, the vested interests and the rich becomes, the more they become a threat to humanity and the more people will become enslaved. The seeker of truth has to create a synthesis, where inner silence and outer joy is developed. Then your being is rooted in wholeness. To know it is to know God. To know it is to know all.”

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Book:Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

“We're bad luck, of course, we widows. We know it. Awkward silences occur around us. People tiptoe. Should we be invited to dinner, or will we cast a pall? We certainly try not to cast palls: palls are unpleasant.”

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Book:Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“Let the river flow again, unhindered, and unbounded. Let it carry the timeless tales,.. the raindrops that fell in the silent agony. Let it carry the story of the hearts, wild in its rapids...”

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Author:Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Silence isn’t always golden. It causes tension & leaves too much room for assumptions. Silence doesn't make you avoid an argument, but rather escalates it. Silence might cause relationship-erosion if the issues that are withheld in silence never get worked out.”

Love Silence Relationship Silent Treatment

Author:Carson Anekeya

“~ Never assume improvement just because the struggle isn't visible. Mental illness often cloaks itself in silence. In the silence of their suffering lies a plea for understanding. Their silence may be a mask for worsening pain. Don't judge. Silence doesn't always signify healing.”

Silence Mental Health

Author:Carson Anekeya

“~ If you know someone with Mental illness who has stopped showing their struggle, don't assume it's because they've got better. Sometimes the moment they stop showing it is the moment they're really getting worse. Don't mistake the absence of visible struggle for recovery.”

Silence Mental Health

Author:Carson Anekeya

“Peace...the indescribable feeling when the earth is drowned in that unspoken stillness.”

Life Inspirational Earth Joy Nature Silence

Author:Jayita Bhattacharjee

“The most fundamental thing to understand is that life is God's gracious gift. Deep in our heart we have to understand that life is a tremendous gift, which has not to be wasted. Life is an opportunity to grow. We have to understand that each moment in life is precious. One has to look inwards. One should not remain concerned just with outside things, because that is how people waste their lives. One should start searching within and ask who we really are. One should go deeper into one's consciousness to find our authentic inner being. The moment you find your inner being all questions are answered. Then there is no confusion anymore, and a clarity arises. This is the moment when you understand how much the universe has given to you. And when you move into silence, you are moving into God.”

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Book:Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

“English: "By speaking, we enslave ourselves through the memory of others, and by silence, we make ourselves strangers." Česky: „Mluvením zotročujeme sami sebe prostřednictvím paměti druhých a mlčením ze sebe děláme cizince.”

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Author:Sebastián Wortys

“It is not the words but the feelings you have for her that are the real source of comfort Sometimes simply holding her hand without uttering a word conveys a lot more than the words spoken.”

Silence Intimacy Feeling Eyes

Author:Shahid Hussain Raja

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