Silence!!!

"SILENCE IS MORE ELOQUENT THAN WORDS"
- Thomas Carlyle

Silence can be active or passive.
Passive silence is lethargy or tamas in ancient Indian lingo. Active silence is poise or sattva. The difference is mostly internal. If you are constantly at work, yet composed, you are deep into work yet unattached to it and equanimity is the word that can describe your state, then you are in poise. You are active, indulged in work and attached to result, you are rajasic. You are disinterested in working, you are in tamas. Is it not laziness to be contended without fulfilling one’s responsibilities?
Silence without activity and active silence are many lives apart.

In this context,I would like to share some of the famous quotes from my collections -

"WE MUST HAVE REASONS FOR SPEECH BUT NONE FOR SILENCE"
- Proverb
"THE ARCTIC EXPRESSES THE SUM OF ALL WISDOM: SILENCE"
- Walter Baver
"SILENCE IS ONE OF THE HARDEST ARGUEMENTS TO REFUTE"
- Josh Billings
"IN THE END, WE WILL REMEMBER NOT THE WORDS OF OUR ENEMIES, BUT THE SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS."
- Martin Luther King, Jr
"SILENCE IS THE TRUE FRIEND THAT NEVER BETRAYS"
- Confucius
"NO ONE HAS A FINER COMMAND OF LANGUAGE THAN THE PERSON WHO KEEPS HIS MOUTH SHUT"
- Sam Rayburn