From yesterday's post on the creation of a sacred place in one's home to something closely related and equally important — the need for a modicum of silence in one's life.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation . . . tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like gray vegetation.Jean Arp
Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.
Rilke
The quieter you become, the more your can hear.
Ram Dass
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W.S. Merwin
(from "A Scale in May")
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Gandhi
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W.S. Merwin
(from "A Scale in May")
