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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It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Silence Quotes , Listening Quotes

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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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

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Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

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For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

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

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Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

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The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

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From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

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Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

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

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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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The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Silence Quotes , Return Quotes

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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If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

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Her silence was the blank space between the words.

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It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

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