Richard Bryan McDaniel. Zen Masters of Japan. The Second Step East. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2014. p. 122.
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
“Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“My best Acquaintances are those
With Whom I spoke no Word”
“I don’t want to die,” A. J. says after a bit. “I just find it difficult to be here all the time.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
As quoted in "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'" by Ian Sample, in The Guardian (15 May 2011) http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven
Context: I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first... I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
“It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.”
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch.1
“It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.”
Book I, ch. 20.
The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 17, “Dead Voices” (p. 171)
