Quotes on Silence

* All other knowledge are only petty and trivial knowledge; the experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge. - Ramana Maharshi

     
    * In his presence, silence is the gift of tongues. - Hakim Sanai
     
    * Many words lead to exhaustion.
      Better to hold fast to your centre. - Lao Tzu
     
    * The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds—all reasoning and disputing—come to an end. Then you go into samadhi—sleep—, into communion with God in silence. - Sri Ramakrishna
     
    * man seeks answers from afar
      man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets
      but has not even gone into the silence of his being - Swami Rajneesh
     
    * External silence helps the inner silence and only in internal silence is Baba found, in profound inner silence. I am never silent. I speak eternally. The voice that is heard deep within the soul is my voice. - Meher Baba
     
    * Sometimes a great teacher teaches his students through silence. The best and deepest of the teachings is not communicated through books, speech or actions, but through silence. That special teaching is understood only when you are silent. - Swami Rama
     
    * Meditation will bring you a great silence -- because all rubbish knowledge is gone. Thoughts that are part of the knowledge are gone too... an immense silence, and you are surprised: This silence is the only music there is. All music is an effort to bring this silence somehow into manifestation. - Osho
     
    * It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
     
    * Mind means words; self means silence. Mind is nothing but all the words that you have accumulated; silence is that which has always been with you, it is not an accumulation. That is the meaning of self. It is your intrinsic quality. On the background of silence you go on accumulating words, and the words in total are known as the mind. Silence is meditation. It is a question of changing the gestalt, shifting the attention from words into silence -- which is always there. - Osho
Quotes on Solitude

    * Work performed with attachment is a shackle, whereas work performed with detachment does not affect the doer. One who works like this is, even while working, in solitude. - Ramana Maharshi
     
    * Meditation gives you the insight of your own inner treasure, and in love you share it. That's what I mean when I say that a sannyasin has to be ready to be alone -- so that one day he can be ready to love. Only a man who knows the beauties of solitude can love. - Osho