William Rose Benet famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Only silence perfects silence.
Silence is a text easy to misread.
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
In the end itâ€™s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we donâ€™t.
This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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