I went to the Cactus Garden again today. I was the only one there, and it was still and silent. When you sit quietly for a long time, the little creatures come to you . I've been thinking about silence and stillness. It is what our world needs. We are bombarded daily by noise and chaos and in this environment our souls shrink and wilt and die . In order to grow and understand, it is necessary to be still and silent once in a while. |
"we can make our minds so still like water. That beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even with a fiercer life because of silence."  |
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"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space." |
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"A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with a sort of greedy enjoyment, as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was saturated with the bouquet of silence." |
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"BE STILL: Be stiller yet; and listen. Set the screen Of silence at the portal of your will. Relax, and let the world go by unheard. And seal your lips with some all-sacred word." |
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."  |
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"You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen."  |
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"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve." |
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"It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun." |
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"It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?"  |
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"We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find." |
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."  |
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"Our aspirations are our possibilities."  |
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"We have more than we use." |
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"Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are." |
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"Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is."  |
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"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."  |
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"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion."  |
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"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." |
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"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."  |
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"The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried." |
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"In quiet places, reason abounds" |
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