About three hundred years ago, an Indian chief said to the governor of Pennsylvania: "We love quiet; we suffer the mouse to play; when the woods are rustled by the wind, we fear not." Silence is part of the traditional way of living for the Native American. It is an easy way, for it gives the soft distance between spoken words, body signals, and action choices. To live with Indian people is to discover a beautiful enhancement of the spirit through silence. Unless they have succumbed to the rush and noise of the mainstream style of life in this country, Indians still reveal this gift of silence. . . .-- Mary Jose Hobday (Catholic nun and Seneca elder)
The Tao cannot be sought from others; it is attained in oneself. If you abandon yourself to seek from others, you are far from the Tao.-- Huainan-tzi
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
-- Tao Te Ching, 42 (Stephen Mitchell translation)
-- Tao Te Ching, 42 (Stephen Mitchell translation)
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
-- Francis Bacon
-- Francis Bacon
Renunciation does not mean turning our back on the world. It means turning our back on the conditions that cause suffering ...-- Jakusho Kwong, No Beginning, No End
The cultivation of justice is silence.-- Isaiah 32.17
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