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WHEN YOU ARE SILENT, IT SPEAKS

WHEN YOU SPEAK, IT IS SILENT

Both cannot speak.

If you speak, God is silent. When you are speaking, and creating noise in your head, he disappears - because his voice is so still, and so small, so silent, that it can be heard only, when you are utterly silent. 

It is not a dialogue. 

It is a passive listening.

Either you speak... and God is not there. 

Or God speaks... and you are not there. 

If you dissolve - if 'you' disappear - then you hear him. 

Then he is speaking. 

From everywhere. 

From every chirping of every bird... 

and from every murmur of every brook... 

and from every wind passing through every pine... 

He is everywhere...

but you fall silent.

~osho~

zen path of paradox (i)

(1977) - chapter 1