E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

You do what you do. Or you do what you have to do. I don't know how to explain it better. I think that in the moment, you can't see connections, but sometimes afterwards you do.

I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.

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.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless awareness. You need a mind without thoughts. In other words, you need a no-mind, just a pure silence, so you can see directly into things. And out of that clarity will come the choice on its own; you are not choosing. You will act just as a buddha acts. Your action will have beauty, your action will have truth, your action will have the fragrance of the divine. There is no need for you to choose.

We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.