calmness of the
lake when there is not a breath of wind; there is the calmness of
a stagnant ditch. So it is with us. Sometimes we are clarified
and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate,
but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become
like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are
revealed to ourselves. All the world goes by us and is reflected
in our deeps. Such clarity! obtained by such pure means!
by simple living, by honesty of purpose. Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself. If the soul attend for a moment to its own infinity, then and there is silence. All sounds are her servants and purveyors, proclaiming not only that their mistress is, but is a rare mistress, and earnestly to be sought after.
Every melodious sound is the ally of Silence,....a help and not a hindrance to abstraction.
He will get to the goal first who stands stillest. That an impression
may be taken, perfect stillness, though but for an instant, is necessary.
I wish I could be, as still, as God is.
The creaking of the crickets seems at the fountain 
of all sound. At last I cannot tell it from a ringing in my ears. It is a sound from within, not without. You cannot dispose of it by listening to it. In proportion as I am stilled, I hear it. The lark sings in the meadow; the very essence of the afternoon in his strain.
This is a New England sound, but the cricket isheard under all sounds.
For the more mental our worship, the more adequate to the nature of God; the more silent, the more suitable to the language of a spirit.
The quieter you become, the more that you can hear. Baba Ram Dass.
"Silence is God's lover. In the silence you can hear the pounding of God's heart."
The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness. Stillness is nowadays often taken as leisureliness or as slowness. Modern man lacks concentration and carries with him an atmosphere of restlessness; with all his knowledge and progress he feels uncomfortable and unintentionally brings discomfort to others. Stillness is therefore the most important lesson that can be taught to the youth of today. Hazrat Inayat Kahn
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