Ramana Maharshi Quotes

She was a genius at listening.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

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.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

I think that's the great thing about music: It can communicate emotionally. And you don't have to necessarily get all of the words. I mean you have to know what is being said, but didn't you find even if you didn't get all of the words, you certainly get the emotion?

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.

They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

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

Silence is often the best thing to say.

Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. We listen to what they mean. And what they mean is often quite apart from the words. When you see a scene between two actors that goes really well you can be sure they're not listening to each other - they're feeling what the other person is trying to get at. Know what I mean?

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to.

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."

Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.