#silencde

[dk-thrive]

Do not allow yourself to be irritated. Do not try to escape.

The crowded bus, the long queue, the railway platform, the traffic jam, the neighbor's television sets, the heavy-footed people on the floor above you, the person who still keeps getting the wrong number on your phone. These are the real conditions of your desert. Do not allow yourself to be irritated. Do not try to escape. Do not postpone your prayer. Kneel down. Enter that disturbed solitude. Let your silence be spoiled by those sounds. It is the beginning of your desert. ~ Alessandro Pronzato, Meditations on the Sand (Alba House, February 1, 1983)

[dk-thrive]

coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes which has no speech

We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes which has no speech

— William Carlos Williams, from Paterson: Revised Edition (New Directions, 1992)