Yoko Ono Quotes

Take time to be quiet.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

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

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.

In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.

In quietness the soul expands.

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

I love silence.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

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.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

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.

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.