Silent observer Quotes

Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.

...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.

He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.

The straight man has the best part. He gets to be in the show and see it, too.

I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

I'm probably not one of the more vocal people around, but I do watch, I do listen and I try to learn from the people I watch.

With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.