“If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.” IfsSilenceMinutesAbsolutesSilentProof Author:Byron Katie
“Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.” IfsStillsLandLaborToolsAbsolutesLaysSilentForgottenIntuitionIntellectPragmaticUncompromising Book:The Problem of Christianity: The real world and the Christian ideas Source: The Problem of Christianity: The real world and the Christian ideas
“As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.” MindStatesKnowingAwarenessReturnAbsolutesSilentStillnessAbyssIdentificationContractions Author:Adyashanti
“The media and politics have never allowed our people to speak through them. The absolute marginalization of the indigenous peoples is a fact, as is sophisticated militarization. These have been the most significant ingredients in the silent war.” PeopleHas BeensWarFactsSpeakMediaAbsolutesSilentSignificantIngredientsSophisticatedIndigenousIndigenous PeopleMarginalization Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.” LittlesWould BeBreakStageMediaParticularNewsConsequenceWindowExcitingAbsolutesSilentDepthScreensAlternativesEmptinessSlipsVoidFlashInabilityFutilityAdvertsPresenterSquinting Author:Jean Baudrillard
“Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.” PeopleMenHumansWholeGovernmentEyeSufferingSpeakLossDecisionPolicyDutyConcernedEarsClaimsAbsolutesResponsibleMereSilentInternationalProfitWelfareAbstractUnhappinessPermitProvokingCitizenshipTestimonyUntrueNegligence Author:Michel Foucault
“It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.” PeopleDoeMightCareRememberOpportunityVoiceSilenceGoneToo MuchGenerationsHeardCryMastersAbsolutesMajoritySilentNoiseLoudRelyProtestWildernessRelativeFragileSilence IsShockingHushFragile ThingsLoud NoisesSilent Majority Author:Alan Moore
“Dhyan means meditation. Meditation means awareness, watchfulness, a silent witnessing of all the processes of the mind. And the magic of watching is that as your watchfulness deepens, the mind starts evaporating. When the watchfulness is absolute mind becomes nil, a zero. And the disappearance of the mind gives you clarity, absolute clarity, transparency; you can see through and through, you become a mirror. And then life is reflected as it is - not according to any doctrine, not according to the Bible or the Koran or the Gita but as it is. And to know life as it is, is to know god.” KnowsGivingMindMeanLife IsProcessMeditationMagicAwarenessAbsolutesMirrorsSilentDoctrineClarityZeroKnowing GodTransparencyDisappearanceGitaWatchfulness Author:Rajneesh
“True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions - may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are.” PeopleMayDifferentJoySimpleEmotionSilenceAwarenessObjectsNeededQuietAbsolutesSilentRefuseTreasureWho We AreDiscoveringFulfilledUnlimitedSilence IsOverflowAbsolute Love Author:Gangaji
“In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.” MindStatesKnowingMeditationAwarenessObjectsSourceListeningReturnAbsolutesSilentAriseRelaxFadesAbyssEmphasisContractions Author:Adyashanti