Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

Silence is a still noise.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

I love silence.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

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.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

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.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Take time to be quiet.

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.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.

and silence is the golden mountain

Focus on stillness, rather than on movement

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

Silence is so accurate.

I aspire only to silence.

Only silence perfects silence.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

'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.