Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Interpretation
Silence allows us to connect with deeper insights and divine inspiration.
This quote emphasizes the importance of silence and introspection in our lives. It suggests that in the quiet moments, away from the noise of everyday life, we can access profound truths and guidance that may otherwise go unheard, highlighting the value of contemplation and awareness in our spiritual journeys.
In practice
During a meditation session, you might share this quote to emphasize the need for silence.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.
There is only one proof of ability - action.
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