Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Take time to be quiet.

Silence is so accurate.

I love silence.

Silence is the most powerful state.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

Listen to the sound of silence.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.