The silence thread

[A human Being]

Originally Posted by blackraven

Gemcrusader - I don't have a photo, but I bring the thread the wise words of the last two lines of the 37th verse of the Tao Te Ching:

"When there is silence,
one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself."

Blackraven

I like that a lot, the words paint a very vivid picture, imo

Originally Posted by kkfern

i tried a blank screen but it wanted 10 characters.

Ah that's a shame I tried inserting some invisible text into a post the other day, but, alas, there isn't a font colour that matches the background of your post (another forum I used to frequent had a white background, so it was easy to insert invisible text - which was generally used to try and trip people up, I should say ) .

[skygazer]

mavericks without sound

[skygazer]

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[Ciona]

[ocean breeze]

[Arcturus]

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bit small, I was gonna share an elaborate quote on silence but it'd look silly next to tiny wave

[Gemcrusader]

Why silly?

The pic resonates with me. I love it.

[Arcturus]

That's better! I've shared this before but I'll share it again::

Silence has many qualities, there is the silence between two noises, the silence between two notes, and the widening silence in the interval between two thoughts. There is that peculiar quiet, pervading silence that comes of an evening in the country. There is the silence in a house when everybody has gone to sleep and its peculiar emphasis when you wake up in the middle of the night and listen to an owl hooting in the valley. And there is that silence before the owl's mate answers.

There is the silence of an old deserted house, and the silence of a mountain. The silence between two human beings when they have seen the same thing, felt the same thing and acted. The meditative mind contains all these varieties, changes and movements of silence. This silence of the mind is the true religious mind, and the silence of the gods is the silence of the earth. And strangely that morning it had come through the window like some perfume, and with it came a sense, a feeling of the absolute. As you looked out of the window the distance between all things disappeared, and your eyes opened with the dawn and saw everything anew.

[linen53]

Such a peaceful place. Thank you all for sharing your pics and words.

[linen53]

A hint of spring