Silence

[CAPTAINZING2000]

A Tradition of Silence:

Quotes from the Masters

The more I read, the more I surf the web, I am finding an increasing amount of treasure in the words of many magnificent teachers and teachings about silence. I am resonating with these gifts no matter what tradition they come from. There is a commonality of experience and declaration. It is the genuine heart of Spirit speaking here through the ages. The voices differ, the textures differ, and yet the experiential fact is exactly the same. Those who have found Pure Silence: the freedom within, are moved simply to share it. The following are some random texts for your enjoyment and resonance.

"But the perfect reflection of the One is shining by itself in lonely silence, there safely pent as one and indivisible. The unity (of God) is un-necessitous, it has no need of speech, but subsists alone in unbroken silence. The mind is rid of light when it is rid of mode; and it is rid of darkness when letting go of all natural things, it sinks in nameless actuality. Then it loses both light and darkness in the abyss that a creature in its own right never plumbs. Such is the estrangement in one as foreshadowed in the ordinary mind, but the realization of unity which the blessed have lies in the exquisite consciousness of another than themselves. O unfathomable void, bottomless to creatures and to thine own self, in thy depth art thou exalted in thy impartible, imperishable actuality; in the height of thy essential power thou art so deep thou dost engulf thy simple ground which is there concealed from all that thou are not; yet those whom thou wouldest commune with shall know thee with thyself."

Meister Eckhart

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"Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being, between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality."

Thomas Merton

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"This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent.' Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."

Rumi

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"In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature."

Jean Klein

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"Silence is the language God speaks and everything else is a bad translation."

Thomas Keating

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"Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you. It will appear in front of you and ask," what do you want?"

Kabir

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"Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature."

Lao Tzu

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"Go into your room, and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father who is in the Secret Place."

Yeshua (Jesus of Nazareth)

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"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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<CENTER><DT>"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment." </CENTER></DT>
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<CENTER><DT>William Penn </CENTER></DT>

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"Things that are real are given and received in Silence. God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence."

Meher Baba

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"Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence."

Deepak Chopra

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"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness."

Ghandi

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<CENTER><DT>Dag Hammarskjöld </CENTER></DT>
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<CENTER>"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls."</CENTER>



<CENTER>Mother Teresa</CENTER>

[Ann]

That's beautiful, Zing, and very true. It wasn't until I found recovery that I understood how healing and peaceful silence could be. It is in silence that I can hear, my inner voice, God, and nature telling its story.

Hugs

Ann

[indigo]

I have found that people often hear silence more intimately than words, I often let silence speak for me it is wiser than my tongue. Thanks for that my dear friend Chris.

hugs Annie

[CAPTAINZING2000]

I have to be reminded to keep my silence to people that are unkind. Silent in prayer

[In memory of miracle]

Amen!
Bless you Zing!