Poems on Sound and Silence

Posted under: poetry - Posted by Nirbhasa Magee on February 13, 2007

Sound teaches me
How to accept the challenge
Of the ruthless world.

- 34,341

Silence teaches me
How to love the world
And become the world.

These short aphorisms by Sri Chinmoy are from a recent version of his Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees vol 35.

Sri Chinmoy is more than half way towards his goal of writing a series of 77,000 spiritual aphorisms.

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