Silence
is an ocean. Speech is a river.
When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk
into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,
and bring your talky business to an end
Traditional words are just babbling
in that presence, and babbling is a substitute
for sight.

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. | As quoted in Teachers of Wisdom (2010) by Igor Kononenko, p. 134 | Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. | As quoted in "Rumi’s wisdom", paulocoelhoblog.com (2 October 2015), by Paulo Coelho

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