Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

I just want silence... Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.

Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration?

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

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 just want to live in peace and quiet.

I really love peace and quiet.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions; the trick to living alone up here, away from all agitating entanglements, allurements, and expectations, apart especially from one's own intensity, is to organize the silence, to think of its mountaintop plenitude as capital, silence as wealth exponentially increasing. The encircling silence as your chosen source of advantage and your only intimate.

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.