A man who has silence
Is a good man.
He is a strong man.
He is an honest man.
He’s a salt of the earth man.
A man who has silence
Doesn’t need much,
But takes care of what he has,
And doesn’t do anything rashly.
A man who has silence
Is no longer afraid –
Not of others,
Nor of the future,
Nor of the self,
That he finds in the gap.
A man who knows silence
Has nothing to defend.
So he has absolute dignity,
And sees that nothing is outside him.
So he has true humility.
A man who has silence
Can listen to wisdom,
Of strange people and places.
He doesn’t need to impose himself on the world.
A man who is silence,
Sees a seamless world
And is utterly one with all things.
Because we are made
Of the same stillness.
We are silence,
in motion,
Looking for itself
In the noise of its own movement.
