What do you prefer to "small talk"?
And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
Between these waves of winter salt and the fingers of deciduous stillness that arc and lean above them, beached and whittled into the sparse clarity of speechless ghosts, there is a space like breath, like... More »
The new language. I speak it. Not with my fingers. I speak it with my eyelids. It is the eyes. The new language is a blinking of the eyes. To create fhe fiction, the reflection,... More »
Itself The unseen is seeing itself. The unfelt is feeling itself. The unknown is knowing itself. The unspoken is speaking itself. The unmanifest is manifesting itself. --Adyashanti, from My Secret Is Silence
Green thunder blooms for our pebble moon though no wind will hear --a quick one from the ubiquitous haiku magnets
Before Saying Any of the Great Words We already know: first we must agree on which they are; but let us acknowledge that they exist: they resound in all their weight and gravity down Nevsky... More »
This one by Nicholas Roerich. It isn't about Christmas really. I'm not sure what's here beyond the image for me. but it fits.
The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit; once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the... More »
If you haven't any lines in this scene with Kite, you must find reasons for saying nothing. --William Gaskill, with stage instructions
Inside the Quaker Meeting by John Krumberger Inside the Quaker meeting house people sit in silence and a small invisible stream flows just beneath the earth. One or two men are so old their hands... More »