All you could do was hope for silence, for still air.
“Life was complicated, I thought. Not just the living but dealing with the realities and the instinct for order that other people have, that I didn't always grasp.”
“Like two old philosophers, Ashvin and James spoke of the ruin of their lives, their unfulfilled needs, their unanswered prayers and ultimately they were seduced by the phantom call to death by suic...”
“Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect.”
“Around them, sky and air wove the ancient song of the meeting place of earth and seawave-rush on the shore, gulls mewing and sobbing. No more bells, except a last dying peal from Fara.”
“I sit down by the river.Its incessant flow has polished the rocks carried from the top of the mountain. The aqueous caress, that has unrolled for millions of years the liquid ribbon from the summit...”
“Dont forget that the land is always out there, making its way, doing everything it can so you can breathe fresh air; so you can eat fresh food; so you can move and see and feel and think, and its o...”
“He didn't speak much but the little he said kept me busy.”
“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”
“Silence is the mother of truth.”
“Silence is a powerful tool.”