Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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“In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.”
Thomas Merton
We just know that something feels wrong, but we don’t quite have new ideas about what to do about it. At best, we’re recycling old ones and say we’ll do them proper this time.
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,... See more
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. - R.W. Emerson
“We know things in the act, not in their essence.” – Peter Putnam