Friday, February 06, 2004

Silence
People fear silence as much as anything, and because meditation takes place in silence it can engender fear. The mind creates its own buzz of activity to combat the inner silence, but the silence has the last word. Sooner or later the mind tires of all this activity and evasiveness, ceases to be restless and fearful, and embraces the silence. It has no choice, it is its true nature.
[from a visit to The Coffee Sutras]

Secret Blogging and Silence

'Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.'
Rabindranath Tagore