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The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

—Sylvia Plath

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Silence is not a thing we make; it is something into which we enter. It is always there. . . . All we can make is noise.

—Mother Maribel of Wantage

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out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. . . .  It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word.

—Eckhart Tolle

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Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. . . Every sound is born

—Unknown

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Why do monks live in seclusion? That is asking why does a scientist work in a laboratory, or why does a sailor go on a ship or why does a duck swim in water. Why does a man go to his bedroom and get in bed when he wants to go to sleep? Why doesn't he lie down in the middle of the street? A monk seeks silence and solitude because there his mind and heart can relax and expand and attain to a new perspective: there too he can hear the Word of God. . . . An apt saying of the Muslim Sufis comes to mind here: "The hen does not lay eggs in the marketplace.

—Thomas Merton

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Just be quiet and sit down. / The reason is you are drunk, / and this is the edge of the roof.

—Rumi

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Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear [who] makes so much noise.

—Mary Austin

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There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

—Linda Hogan

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Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

—John Lahr

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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.

—Mother Teresa

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Being human cannot be borne alone. We need other presences. We need soft night noises — a mother speaking downstairs.
. . . We need the little clicks and sighs of a sustaining otherness. We need the gods.

—John Updike

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If you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living.

—Mel Brooks

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Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, otherworldly activities. . . . They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

—Desmond Tutu

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Forgiveness is no substitute for justice.

—Pope Benedict xvi

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Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.

—14th Dalai Lama

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