I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of

In that silence awareness is clear and vivid. You just know, and a quiet confidence is born.

undistracted with ourselves – appreciating small pleasures; examining the contents of our own minds; allowing the quieter parts of our psyches to emerge; thinking before we act. It is a poignant phrase because the louder voices