Listening Below the Noise Quotes

“Like too many of us, I mistook a busy life for a rich one.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence – Ancient Wisdom for Finding Stillness and Peace.

“How often do we offer advice when what is really required is a compassionate ear?”
― Anne D. LeClaire, Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence – Ancient Wisdom for Finding Stillness and Peace.

“Are these words true? At the second: Are they necessary? At the third: Are they kind?”
― Anne D. LeClaire, Listening Below the Noise: The Transformative Power of Silence

“But if one says: I cannot come because it is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, Listening Below the Noise: The Transformative Power of Silence

“It is not the burdens and resentments we pick up that keep us derailed, but our continuing to tote them.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence – Ancient Wisdom for Finding Stillness and Peace.

“Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion. A filling up.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence – Ancient Wisdom for Finding Stillness and Peace.

“Silence, along with the attention it fosters, is our anchor to the present, to the here and now.”
― Anne D. LeClaire, Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence – Ancient Wisdom for Finding Stillness and Peace.