Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Silence Quotes

If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

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To many mortals silence great gain brings.

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Her silence was the blank space between the words.

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Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

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From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

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So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation.

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To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Silence Quotes , Stopping Quotes

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

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Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

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Silence is a great peacemaker.

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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

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