Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Father Quotes, Silence Quotes

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

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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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While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

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Noise: a stench in the ear.

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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

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When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

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There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.

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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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I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

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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.

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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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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

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All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

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Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

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