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Silence Beyond Words
There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don‘t use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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Not like a boat’s sail, spread wide and worn away by wind and weather, but rather the humble anchor, sunk in the vast ocean’s depth — the mind should plunge and settle in the heart of wisdom.
~ Sri Muruganar
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“Exuberant is existence, time a husk.
When the moment cracks open, ecstasy leaps out and devours space; love goes mad with the blessings, like my words give.
Why lay yourself on the torturer’s rack of the past and future?
The mind that tries to shape tomorrow beyond its capacities
will find no rest.
Be kind to yourself, dear — to our innocent follies.
Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance.
~Rumi
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I want to write a novel about Silence, he said; the things people don’t say.
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
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If we could see what’s going on at the subatomic level we’d be astonished at the exuberance at the…
