Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Interpretation
Silence allows us to connect with deeper insights and divine inspiration.
This quote emphasizes the importance of silence and introspection in our lives. It suggests that in the quiet moments, away from the noise of everyday life, we can access profound truths and guidance that may otherwise go unheard, highlighting the value of contemplation and awareness in our spiritual journeys.
In practice
During a meditation session, you might share this quote to emphasize the need for silence.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet_x000D_ confinement of your aloneness_x000D_ to learn_x000D_ anything or anyone_x000D_ that does not bring you alive_x000D_ is too small for you.
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