Saturday, January 22, 2011

the ground of silence

Silence is not simply the absence of word or sound.
It is that spacious ground beneath all that we say or do.
All words we speak arise from it, and return to it.
Silence endures and waits beneath
all of our noise,
our busyness,
and our excesses.

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