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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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

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My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.

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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

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Noise: a stench in the ear.

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When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.

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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

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Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

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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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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

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Each found her greatest safety in silence.

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In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.

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To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

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Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

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The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

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The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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Silence is a great peacemaker.

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