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“The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.”

Source: Nightmares & Dreamscapes

“All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.”

Moments Difficult Religious Silence Quiet Tradition Artistic Contemplative Quiet Moments

Author:David Whyte

“In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.”

Heart May Moments Happens Names Sound Silence Breaths Extraordinary That Moment Dusk Advent Extraordinary Things Matched Extraordinary Moments Midwinter

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."”

“Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.”

Years Moments Seems Silence Eternal Noisy

Author:William Wordsworth

“The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.”

Knows Moments Feelings Grows Silence Arise Shy Midst Something New Embarrassment Mute New Experiences

Book:Rilke in Paris

Source: Rilke in Paris

“We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.”

Humans Moments Bigs Sound Cities Silence Strange Quiet Breaths Fellows Noise Instant Seconds Sunlight Traffic Miraculous Footsteps Big Cities

Author:Dorothy Day

“Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.”

“To trust yourself is to trust Silence. To trust your own heart is to trust the wisdom that is radiating and shining. All the thoughts, feelings, desires, and fears are just a superimposition that is called 'myself.' When all that disappears, for at least a moment, your Self shines forth. Radiantly, clear, and empty. Needing nothing, nourished, and overflowing.”

Heart Self Moments Feelings Desire Silence Clear Empty Shining Disappear Trust Yourself

Author:Eli Jaxon-Bear

“You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.”

Stills Moments Silence Serenity

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.”

Doe Soul Moments Action Secret Silence Divine Shapes Sacred Fruit Depth Resolve Hiding Solitary Inward Sacredness

Book:Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series

“If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.”

Ifs Knows Humans Play Whole Moments Actors Human Beings Silence Like You Theater Actresses Loud That Moment Worthwhile Receiving

Author:Shelley Winters

“The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to articulate discontent so it is sometimes held not to exist. This mistaken belief arises because we can only grasp silence in the moment in which it is breaking.”

Sometimes Moments Belief Silence Quiet Limits Arise Oppression Conception Oppressed Mistaken Discontent Without Hope

Author:Sheila Rowbotham

“How does silence find its way out of that noisy, chattering mind? That endless maze of thought, concept, opinion, belief? How does perfect silence and pure consciousness find its way out of that maze? Very simply: Bring yourself present with something that's HERE, in the moment. Then you'll be HERE again.”

Way Mind Doe Moments Belief Perfect Consciousness Silence Opinion Pure Concepts Endless Live In The Moment Noisy Mazes

Author:Leonard Jacobson

“Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.”

Moments Perfect Silence Ought Understood Mysterious Delicate Secrecy Piety Delicacy Friendship Love Rare Moments

Author:Novalis

“This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.”

Knows Mind Looks Moments Silence Available Awake Silence Is

Author:Adyashanti