Bryant H. McGill Quotes

I love silence.

Take time to be quiet.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Real action is in silent moments.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

Focus on stillness, rather than on movement

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

Silence is the most powerful state.

'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.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

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

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.

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.

Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

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.

No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.