Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often are a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
— Carl Jung
Tag: words
It’s easy to succumb to the soothing embrace of words and language when often we’re really falling into a trap.
Words can never capture what we are – language always fails beautifully in this regard – but this chap has a lovely turn of phrase and a simple brevity which always makes me smile and feel a gentle ‘yes’ every time I read him.
No matter how compelling or beautiful they may be, words appeal in the main to the linear, thinking mind that thinks in words.
— Dōgen
What’s here now? 