“Happiness comes to us by Itself, and It envelops our whole being when the mind becomes humble and silent, as it has understood its inability to encounter the Unknown.”
Source: The Wondrous Journey: Into the Depth of Our Being
“I remember once my father and my grandfather were sitting on the porch together, crackling and shelling black walnuts. They loved each other's company, when they weren't at each other's throats, which meant when they were silent, as they were that day.”
Source: Gilead
“I want only silence, silence and again silence. Let me die quite and forgotten, or if I must live, let me live more quite, and forgotten still...”
Source: The Letters of Paul Gauguin to Georges Daniel De Monfreid - Scholar's Choice Edition
“Silence is a practice of emptying, of letting go. It is a process of hollowing ourselves out so we can open to what is emerging. Our work is to make ourselves receptive. The organ of receiving is the human heart, and it is here that we feel the deep ache of loss, the bittersweet reminders of all that we loved, the piercing artifacts of betrayal, and the sheer truth of impermanence. Love and loss, as we know so well, forever entwined.”
Source: The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
“Words never mean a thing if you don't know the lack of them,
or sounds,
or laughter,
and it's the small moments of silence I value the most.”
Source: You're Doing Just Fine
“The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.”
Source: Prayer for Beginners
“Each night he would give up on sleeping in his pain and drowning in his silence; he would watch the few stars that were in the sky that night, but he would never be living them. Something has taken his warmth and replaced it with a starless sky.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“The sound of my own voice is unfamiliar to me after a long silence.”
“Not every heart has a story to tell. Be kind to some people’s silence.”
“By quieting externally, you gain the space internally. Life is a flow - it goes on. Good or bad, it will always change.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity