A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma August 5, 2012
The Refuge of Silence
Silence
arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of
noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees,
as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.
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- Barbara Hurd, "On Silence"
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