I was sitting in my office today…. in the quietest of quiet.  And my computer “dinged.”  Someone had sent me a message.    And in that message was the best quote ever.

It embodies the standard I have in my head, and my heart…. for my own life.  Sometimes I don’t live up to it.

At any rate, here is the quote by Sai Ali Baba.

Before you speak ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?

This is profound, in so many ways.

But perhaps, that which we do not often consider.

“Does it improve on the silence?”

How often do we try to be in our own silence and experience how that feels at any given moment.  Perhaps, this moment.

With that, I have no more words of my own tonight.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot

Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein