Sherwood Anderson Quotes

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.

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 experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward voice till you learn to recognize it.

Day after day, we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

I aspire only to silence.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.

Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.