Truman Capote 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.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.

You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall that listening is much more invigorating than giving voice to all the thoughts and prejudices that anyway keep me company twenty-four hours a day.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

The wisdom of silence is a great asset.