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  • The lightnings trembled

    And in thy Silence was his Sentence,
    And in his Soul a vain repentance,
    And evil dread so ill dissembled,
    That in his hand the lightnings trembled.

    Lord Byron, Prometheus
    • i
    • defiance
    • silence
  • A state of quietness

    Tea is said to be the way. This is because it is something one learns to appreciate through feeling, not through verbal instructions. If a person maintains a state of quietness, only then will one appreciate the quietness inherent in tea.

    Lu Yu, The Book of Tea
    • silence
    • understanding
  • Silence like a cancer grows

    “Fools,” said I, “You do not know
    Silence like a cancer grows
    Hear my words that I might teach you
    Take my arms that I might reach you”
    But my words like silent raindrops fell
    And echoed in the wells of silence

    Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel, The Sound Of Silence
    • silence
    • disease
    • rain
  • Talking with Clinton

    When you are talking with Clinton, he is not looking over your shoulder to see who else is in the room. You can tell he is not thinking about how he is going to respond to you. He is there, present and listening.

    By the way, when you scramble the letters in the word listen, it becomes a new word: silent. We’re so often wrapped up in our own self-talk, we forget to listen and learn the information in the first place…and you can’t remember or understand something you never observed.

    Richard Saul Wurman, Understanding Understanding
    • communication
    • silence
  • She was the universe

    The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still,
    And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths;
    Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
    And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd
    They slept on the abyss without a surge—
    The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
    The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
    The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
    And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
    Of aid from them—She was the Universe.

    Lord Byron, Darkness
    • darkness
    • time
    • silence
  • Most important of all are the pauses

    Japanese music is above all a music of reticence, of atmosphere. When recorded, or amplified by a loudspeaker, the greater part of its charm is lost. In conversation, too, we prefer the soft voice, the understatement. Most important of all are the pauses. Yet the phonograph and radio render these moments of silence utterly lifeless. And so we distort the arts themselves to curry favor for them with the machines.

    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki & Thomas J. Harper, In Praise of Shadows
    • sound
    • silence
    • absence
    • emptiness
  • Silence

    A Book by John Cage
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    1. ​​I would want to be in that darkness​​
    1. ​​The Sound Of Silence​​
    • sound
    • silence
    • music
    • art
    • zen
  • Silent Conversation

    A Game
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    Silent Conversation tells classic stories, poems and haiku in an interactive way, inspired by Walter Savage Landor's motto What is reading but silent conversation?. They are presented as levels where the player controls a small line (similar to a text prompt) to go through the winding words.

    • literature
    • poetry
    • haiku
    • reading
    • silence
  • Beauty and compression

    An Article by Scott Alexander
    astralcodexten.substack.com

    The Buddha discusses states of extreme bliss attainable through meditation:

    Secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, a bhikkhu enters and dwells in the first jhāna, which is accompanied by thought and examination, with rapture and happiness born of seclusion.

    ...If you could really concentrate on a metronome, it would be more blissful than a symphony. The jhāna is also a strong contender as a theory of beauty: beauty is that which is compressible but has not already been compressed.

    1. ​​The Abode of the Unsymmetrical​​
    • beauty
    • silence
    • senses
    • attention

    Edited from original text for brevity.


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