William Wordsworth Quotes

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

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.

When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

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

Take time to be quiet. This is something that we don't do enough in this busy world of ours. We rush, rush, rush, and we are constantly listening to noise all around us. The human heart was meant for times of quiet, to peer deep within. It is when we do this that our hearts are set free to soar and take flight on the wings of our own dreams! Schedule some quiet "dream time" this week. No other people. No cell phone. No computer. Just you, a pad, a pen, and your thoughts.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

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.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.

and silence is the golden mountain

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.

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.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.