Bethany
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To me, silence is not necessarily the forceful stopping of our inner chatter or of outside sounds. Silence is simply not describing things to ourselves all the time.
“Your soul is the whole world.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“But it is I who am the ritual, I the sacrifice, the offering to the ancestors, the healing herb, the transcendental chant. I am the butter and the fire and the offering.”
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“there is only this world and that numbing routines and brief squabbles and financial worries are an essential part of it, that in spite of the aches and boredomes and disappointments, living in this world is the closest we will ever come to seeing paradise.”
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“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.”
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