Silence will carry your voice like the nest that holds the sleeping birds. —Rabindranath Tagore

  

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The moment you start talking you create a verbal universe, a universe of words, ideas, concepts and abstractions, interwoven and inter-dependent, most wonderfully generating, supporting and explaining each other and yet all without essence or substance, mere creations of the mind.

Words create words, reality is silent.


—Nisargadatta 

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You are the only faithful student you have.
All the others leave eventually.

Have you been making yourself shallow
with making others eminent?

Just remember, when you're in union,
you don't have to fear 
that you'll be drained.

The command comes to speak,
and you feel the ocean 
moving through you. 

Then comes, Be silent,
as when the rain stops,
and the trees in the orchard
begin to draw moisture
up into themselves.


—Rumi
Mathnawi, V, 3195-3219) 
Coleman Barks version

 

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silence

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a

looking

bird:the

turn

ing;edge,of

life 

(inquiry before snow

—E. E. Cummings

 

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