“It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.”

“…from politics, it was an easy step to silence.”

“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”

“To give up our imaginary position as the center, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our soul, that means to awaken to what is real and eternal, to see the true light and hear the true silence.”

“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”

“It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.”

“Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred”

“So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?”

“A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.”

“Silence is like a flame, you see?”