Jill Purce Professions : Author Born : 1947 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Jill Purce The purpose of sound is silence. Jill Purce silence purpose sound The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next. Jill Purce growth greek decision In chanting, one tries to find one's own sound, literally, and then to go within that-to find the sounds within one's own sound, to bring out that which is within, to go into, explore and discover oneself. Jill Purce self-knowledge sound trying Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors