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«Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.»
«Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
blessings, coincidences, events, get in, get in touch, given, mistakes, no touch, purpose, silence, The Silence, touch, to get, within
«Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.»
Author: Fulton J. Sheen
| About:
Leisure
| Keywords:
contemplation, noiselessness, occurs, rest on, rosebud, rosebuds, The Silence, waterfall, waterfalls
«It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.»
Author: Ivan Illich
| Keywords:
accent, accents, delicacies, delicacy, delicately, explains, grammar, missionaries, Natives, notwithstanding, properly speaking, silences, The Silence
«In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.»
«Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.»
«No voice; but oh! the silence sank / Like music on my heart.»
«O man, when you were coiled in the cradle of the womb, upside-down, you were absorbed in meditation. You took no pride in your perishable body; night and day were all the same to you - you lived unknowing, in the silence of the void. Remember the terrible pain and suffering of those days, now that you have spread out the net of your consciousness far and wide.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
coil, coiled, Coils, cradle, far and wide, Night and Day, spread out, The Net, The Silence, unknowing, upside down
«Spend a few minutes every morning and evening in the Silence of your own shrine or home; spend them with the highest of all the Powers that you know of. Be in His elevating and Inspiring company; worship Him mentally; offer unto Him all the work you do; you will come out of the silence nobler and more heroic than when you went in.»
«No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebri»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Arabian, Arabians, chants, cuckoo, nightingale, shady, The Silence, thrilling
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