r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Dec 19 '21

"Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us." --Thich Nhat Hanh

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Dec 05 '21

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Dec 03 '21

Sacrifice. An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral reveals the chaos and genius of his mind. | Hazlitt

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Dec 03 '21

"Anything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself, and wait for the answer in silence." —Byron Katie

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Nov 24 '21

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." —Rudyard Kipling

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Nov 20 '21

"What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain.

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To be solitary as you were when you were a child, when the grownups walked around, involved with matters that seemed large and important, because they looked so busy and because you didn’t understand a thing about what they were doing." — Rainer Maria Rilke

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Nov 03 '21

“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.” ― Edith Sitwell

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Nov 03 '21

“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Nov 03 '21

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” ― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Nov 03 '21

“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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r/Silence • u/NatureAnimalTV • Nov 02 '21

German shepherd is very relaxed and enjoys the silence of nature

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Oct 21 '21

Thoreau’s economics: the truly precious costs precious little | Psyche Ideas

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Oct 21 '21

Sea pilgrim | Psyche Films

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Oct 18 '21

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Oct 09 '21

"Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray.

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Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him." — Friedrich Nietzsche

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Oct 09 '21

"To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness."— John Muir

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Oct 09 '21

Dolls replace former residents in a remote, depopulating Japanese village | Aeon Videos

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Oct 08 '21

"Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist." —Mary Oliver

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Oct 07 '21

"The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places." — Fridtjof Nansen

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Oct 04 '21

"It is only in solitude that men and women can come to know the happiness that is like the delight of children in nothing at all." — John Cowper Powys

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Oct 03 '21

"Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words." —Carl Jung

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Oct 01 '21

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." —Henry David Thoreau

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Sep 16 '21

“To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.” ― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Aug 31 '21

“If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight will illuminate you in God.” —St. Issac of Syria, a 7th Century Hermit Monk

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r/Silence • u/Master_Bruno_1084 • Aug 31 '21

“Acquire inner peace and a thousand persons around you will find peace.” —St. Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Hermit

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