Be with people in silence; don’t spend precious time and energy in idle talk. Eat in silence; work in silence. God loves silence.
Silence is calm,
Measured,
Still,
Fluid,
Peaceful,
Mysterious,
Golden,
Full,
Empty,
Defiant,
Intimidating,
Frustrating,
Scared and scary,
Powerful and weak,
Revealing,
Sheilding,
Universal,
Impregnable,
Creative,
Dull,
It goes on and on and on and on,
Just like I am now.
( I find silence tricky, but words can be trickier )
P.S. I can’t spell well.
Now all my teachers are dead except silence. ~W.S. Merwin
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
What you can do:
You can criticise silence,
You can ignore silence.
What you cannot do:
You cannot sit even one fleeting minute
In silence.
Yet one day
It is you and you alone
Who will marry silence
And become inseparably one
With silence-sky.
Chinnoy
Four monks agreed to meditate in silence for a week and to not speak a single word. On the first day, they all maintained silence. But as darkness fell, the flame of their singular candle began to flicker. "Oh, the flame is going out, said one monk. "Eh, we should not speak a single word, said the second monk. "Why do you two want to speak? said the third monk "Ha! I am the only one who did not talk! said the fourth monk.
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From “Spritual Diary” of Paramahansa Yogananda:
December 10 - Silence
“Be with people in silence; don’t spend precious time and energy in idle talk. Eat in silence; work in silence. God loves silence.”, Paramahansa Yogananda, SRF Lessons
December 12 - Silence
“My silence, like an expanding sphere, spreads everywhere. My silence spreads like a radio song, above, beneath, left and right, within and without. My silence spreads like a wildfire of bliss; the dark thickets of sorrow and tall oaks of pride are all burning up. My silence, like the ether, passes through everything, carrying the songs of earth, atoms, and stars into the halls of His infinite mansion.”, Paramahansa Yogananda, "Metaphysical Meditations
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