In the name of God

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

~Leo Tolstoy

When a warrior

“When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.””

~Carlos Castaneda

Never miss

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

~Will Rogers

After eating

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

~Will Rogers

But I'll tell you

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

~Alan Watts

No one's mouth

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

~Alan Watts

Be silent.

Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

~Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings

The wall is silence

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep,
Tall trees of peace their vigil keep,
And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled
Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

~Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

The fair request

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence.

- Dante Alighieri

Wherever you go

"Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality."

-- Deepak Chopra

In a world

"In a world filled with noise, we need to quiet ourselves to hear God’s voice."

--Paul Borthwick

Meditation helps me feel

"Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit."

-- Wayne Muller

All man's miseries

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone."

-- Blaise Pascal

Never miss

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

~unknown

Contain your experience

"Contain your experience with the divine
so that it does not escape you but rather shapes you.
Be silent.
Silence will help you avoid engaging in the games of competition and illusion
that regularly seduce us in the outside world.
Silence also helps you avoid distraction.
It helps focus the busy mind -
the mind that always has to be doing something, thinking something,
the mind that always has to be otherwise engaged
lest it become introspective and allow the soul's voice to override its own.
The silence I am describing is a silence that you use
to contain the grace you receive when you enter the Castle of your soul.
This quality of silence allows you to engage in discernment.
You carry this silence within you, even when you are with others.
It allows you to hold your center amid the chaos of your life;
it keeps you clear so that you do not do or say things you will regret
or make decisions out of fear. "

~ Caroline Myss

The soul

"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself.
The challenge is to silence the mind."

~ Caroline Myss

We all need space

We all need space -- free from demands, deadlines, expectations and judgments -- to explore who we are and what life is all about. Free time, with absolutely no agenda, is rich with potential. How can we grow if we have no space and freedom to dream?

"Deny children -- or anyone else -- the chance to do ‘nothing,’ and we may be denying them the chance to do ‘something’ -- to find and do any work that is truly important to themselves or to someone else."

-- John Holt

There are nights

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

~George Carlin

Listen

Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world,
and you will remember the lesson you forgot.

~jack kerouac

Move outside

Move outside the tangle of fear thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.

~Rumi