“When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.”
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
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“Take care never to speak what you have not weighed and pondered beforehand; nor interject your own words on the spur of the moment and in the midst of another’s; for you must listen and converse in turn, with set times for speech and for silence.”
Source: To the Newly Baptized, p. 373.
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