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Bobbi Fields's avatar

Great insight! Reminds me of some quotes written by my late Father, Sid Bolon; "It's always too late to recall words spoken too soon" and "A good listener will play it by ear".

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Mohan Manohar's avatar

Your father was a sage!

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Dr. Chuck Chakrapani's avatar

Agree!

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Frank Benitz's avatar

Beautiful text, thank you !

It is also amazing how humankind does not only repeat its mistakes (e.g. harsh speech, violence…) again and again over different times (ancient, modern, …) and different cultures (western, eastern…) but also found fundamental truths in different philosophies:

Your text:

„There is beauty and power in silence.“

(daodejing 2)…the sage

resides with the task of nonaction

practices the teaching of nonspeaking…

„It is the emptiness of an enclosed space that makes a room.“

(daodejing 11)…doors and windows are chiseled out.

It is in its (space of) emptiness,

where the usefulness of a room is…

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Dr. Chuck Chakrapani's avatar

Thank you for the parallel quotes.

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Lee Archer  |  Nottingham Arts's avatar

As I get older, my tolerance for auditory stimulation has been decreasing rapidly.

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Byzantine School's avatar

Thank you. So good so true so hard.

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