Aleister Crowley Quotes

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Take time to be quiet.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

I love silence.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

I have not yet learned to keep still.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Silence is the most powerful state.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

Real action is in silent moments.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Yoga is the cessation of mind.