Aldous Huxley Quotes

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

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

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

I aspire only to silence.

I love silence.

My hobby is silence.

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.

Take time to be quiet.

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.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

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.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

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 feel calm when I'm on my own.

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

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.