Silent Reflection Quotes

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

Before you speak, listen.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there's no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but we're still living the book.

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what it is we want to say and what we expect from others; and we choose how to express ourselves.

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

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself.

What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.

The root of prayer is interior silence.

I realised quite early that by the time I articulate my thoughts into words, I'm on to another thought. And what comes out wasn't what I thought of exactly. So not talking was a better option.

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

Meditation is the action of silence.