I
grew up among the Sages.
All
my life I listened to their words.
Yet
I have found nothing better than silence.
Study is not the goal, doing is.
Do
not mistake "talk" for "action".
Pity
fills no stomach.
Compassion
builds no house.
Understanding
is not yet justice.
Whoever
multiplies words causes confusion.
The
truth that can be spoken
is
not the Ultimate Truth.
Ultimate
Truth is wordless,
the
silence within the silence.
More
than the absence of speech,
More
than the absence of words,
Ultimate
Truth is the seamless being-in-place
that
comes with attending to Reality.
~
Shimon ben Gamliel ~
~
Pirke Avot 1:17 ~
(The
Sayings of the Fathers)
