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“Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays its often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources its a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.”

Source: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

“I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.”

Years Silence One Thing Heard Taught Years Ago Ears Twenties

Author:Mark Nepo

“I tried making an album six years ago. It was just horrific. Trust me, it's smashed into smithereens. I paid big money to silence that one.”

Years Bigs Silence Six Years Ago Paid Albums Trust Me Horrific

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.”

Way Years Mean Today Silence Adventure Thousand Findings Years Ago Stillness Thousand Years

Author:Pico Iyer

“You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.”

Years Firsts Heart Light Eye Girl Speak Silence Hair Arms Late Years Ago Garden Wet Waste Land Hyacinths

Book:My Own Wasteland

Source: My Own Wasteland

“That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.”

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Book:The world of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The world of Evelyn Waugh

“Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.”

People Thinking Years Believe Matter Helping Church Prayer Grief Silence Car Cry Praying Mountain Years Ago Dancing Details Showers Essays Bathroom Garage Dance Floor

Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.”

People Ifs Giving Years Found Silence Information Quiet Years Ago Filled Offering Quiet People Filled In

Author:Martina Cole