“When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.”

“Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be.”

“Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.”

“If you listen, you can hear it.The city, it sings.If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house.It's clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you.It's a wordless song, for the most, but it's a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings. And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note.”

“...my thoughts reach out like prayers to you - and if you are quiet, you can hear...”

“How calm and quiet a delightIt is aloneTo read, and meditate, and write.”