Sylvia Plath Quotes

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

I aspire only to silence.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Listen to the sound of silence.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Take time to be quiet.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Silence is best.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

I love silence.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

I believe silence is the greatest sound of all.

My hobby is silence.