"The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.""

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Coleman Barks

#Talking Quotes #Silence Quotes #Ineffable Quotes

“I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.”
“She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“I never thought of myself as a good singer.”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1775, e-artnow
“I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.”
“Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.”
“I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.”
“Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?”

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