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Creation Comes From Silence
…a river of words darkens the topic to be understood, giving it the apparent clarity that it does not understand and trivializes.
Martin Heidegger , “Being and Time”
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If you don’t approve of what someone says, don’t debate or want to be right at all costs, just stay silent.
— Gurdijeff’s letter to his daughter
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“The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh
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Give us silence, not answers,
give us shadows and their acolytes
hidden in the sky.
— Charles Wright
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The shedding of
Leaves in autumn
Does not affect
The root of the tree.
Likewise,
Essence is unaffected
When forms dissolve.
Wu Hsin
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Our situation is unstable and this is because we are not a thing we are processes. Our life is dynamic, our life is a ceaseless experience of…
