7/30/2019 Sunday Roundtable #2: Wordless Chorus
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Sunday Roundtable #2Wordless Chorus
Why are you so afraid of silence? Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its
void, a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.
-Rumi
People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me
sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.
-Inayat H. Khan
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is
deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.-Thomas Carlyle
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The
rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
-George Steiner
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words
which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
-Rabindranath Tagore
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you
need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you
hear the truth and know the solutions.
-Deepak Chopra
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.-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
-William Rose Benet
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become
inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
-Ansel Adams
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is
full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Silence is more musical than any song.
-Christina Rossetti
You know whats the loudest noise in the world, man? The loudest noise in the world issilence.
-Thelonious Monk
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pause s between the notes ah,
that is where the art resides!
- Arthur Schnabel
I sat there singing her
Songs in the dark.
She said,
I do not understand
The words.
I said,
There are
No words.
-Langston Hughes, Songs
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
-Elayne Boosler
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Silence is so accurate.
-Mark Rothko
Most of the conflicts and tensions are due to language. Dont pay so much attention to
the words. In loves country, language doesnt have a place. Love is mute.-Shams Tabrizi
Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.
-Rumi
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.-Mother Teresa
Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly
in and out.
-Rumi
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust
them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
-Pope John Paul II
All the masters tell us that the Reality of life which our noisy waking consciousness
prevents us from hearing speaks to us mainly in Silence.
Karlfried Graf Durkhelm
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than
yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!
-Johannes Tauler
"There is a voicethat doesn't use words. Listen!"
-Rumi
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