Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.” —Carl Jung
In Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, the profoundly human (i.e., imperfect) teacher, Hector, reminds his students that “The best moments in reading are when you come across something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, may... See more
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. - R.W. Emerson
Black is all colors at once
“In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.”
Thomas Merton
