Benjamin Hoff Quotes

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

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.

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

Take time to be quiet.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.

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

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.

Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

I just want silence... Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.

Thought will not work except in silence.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.

But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music!

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

Silence does good to the soul.