Sunday, November 5, 2023

Silence

A man cannot understand the true value of silence
unless he has a real respect for the validity of language:
for the reality which is expressible in language is found,
face to face and without any medium, in silence.

                Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

 

 

 

 

 

 

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