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Silence
By Patrick Zamora
Translated by Charbel Tadros
www.seekersofwisdom.tk
May 2008
It’s a volcano of secrets in which lie the running in and out of the pulse of life. In it, it’s as if water freezes paralyzing
movement and life, or even, life and movement in it become moribund. However, as soon as the necessary heat is provided,
it comes back bringing movement along with it, speech appears.
In the dictionary, words are mummies. However, on the tongues and lips of people, they are a living entity splashing with the
waves of thoughts and imaginations. Speech is a tool for communication alas, in some cases it becomes a tool for conflict.
That’s why silence is important. It gives life a complete meaning standing high above the human measurements and
ingredients, and it gives man a meaning beyond time and space. It is a refusal of the borders imposed by the vanity of man. It
is a glorification for man.
And even if it includes all the mischief, ugliness, ignorance, and tyranny in human life, silence remains the supreme symbol of
the complete wisdom and justice of life and the divinity of man.
Silence is an eternal force created by the heart of human existence to be a white light and a barrier for a world engulfed by
the vain desires of flesh and blood.
What we need most everyday, and especially nowadays, are filters for the hearts and thoughts and guards for the eyes, ears,
and mouths.
There is nothing worse than the tongue from which slide out wounding words as arrows slide from bows, and the tongues
which stab worse than swords and spears.
Silence is the tight filter of our hearts and thoughts. Let us repeat with the immortal Gibran:
“Give me the flute and sing And forget what I said and you said
Speech is vain So show me what you can do”
By Patrick Zamora
Translated by Charbel Tadros
www.seekersofwisdom.tk
May 2008
It’s a volcano of secrets in which lie the running in and out of the pulse of life. In it, it’s as if water freezes paralyzing
movement and life, or even, life and movement in it become moribund. However, as soon as the necessary heat is provided,
it comes back bringing movement along with it, speech appears.
In the dictionary, words are mummies. However, on the tongues and lips of people, they are a living entity splashing with the
waves of thoughts and imaginations. Speech is a tool for communication alas, in some cases it becomes a tool for conflict.
That’s why silence is important. It gives life a complete meaning standing high above the human measurements and
ingredients, and it gives man a meaning beyond time and space. It is a refusal of the borders imposed by the vanity of man. It
is a glorification for man.
And even if it includes all the mischief, ugliness, ignorance, and tyranny in human life, silence remains the supreme symbol of
the complete wisdom and justice of life and the divinity of man.
Silence is an eternal force created by the heart of human existence to be a white light and a barrier for a world engulfed by
the vain desires of flesh and blood.
What we need most everyday, and especially nowadays, are filters for the hearts and thoughts and guards for the eyes, ears,
and mouths.
There is nothing worse than the tongue from which slide out wounding words as arrows slide from bows, and the tongues
which stab worse than swords and spears.
Silence is the tight filter of our hearts and thoughts. Let us repeat with the immortal Gibran:
“Give me the flute and sing And forget what I said and you said
Speech is vain So show me what you can do”
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The gift of giving.
Translated by Charbel Tadros
www.seekersofwisdom.tk
May 2008
“There’s not enough” and “He/she doesn’t deserve it” are probably the sentences we most hear nowadays. People are always
complaining of not having enough, or if they have enough, they won’t give the rest to just anyone. According to Gibran Khalil
Gibran in his inspiring book “The Prophet”, “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of
yourself that you truly give.”
We usually think that we have nothing to give. We don’t have enough money, food, fun, joy, love, etc… What we don’t
realize is that we can give of ourselves. We can give what we are to others for free. Let’s say that you’re a doctor, can’t you
do some medical work for free for some needy patients once in a while? Or let’s say that you are a painter, wouldn’t it be
better for your paintings to be hung on the walls of a miserable family’s house to cheer them up and brighten their day than to
stay and rot in your attic?
So you see, whatever you are in life, you can use to give. Would it be better for you to stay home all day complaining of no
work? In addition to that, you get bored so you start consuming more food which leads to more expenses and more debts.
During that time which you uselessly spend complaining, you could go out in the world and help people. You don’t need to
give any material possessions; sometimes a soft word is enough to lift a sad person’s soul to the heavens.
Concerning the deserving or the undeserving, Gibran says: “And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves
to fill his cup from your little stream.” Who are we to say who deserves and who doesn’t? Most religions agree that within every
human is the essence of the divine. Some people, the ones we call “undeserving”, are probably hiding this divinity within. It is
our job to seek it and reawaken their divine nature. The only way to truly uncover this divinity is through giving. When you
give, you give of your own divinity, which touches and moves the divinity in others.
In the end, I would like to mention one kind of givers, the givers of their own body. Those people are truly divine because
they give of their own body and blood in order to help others in dire need. These people help others which they don’t know.
They don’t care about the deserving or the undeserving; they only give freely, happily, and lovingly caring only about saving the
lives of unknown others.
“For in truth it is life that gives unto life - while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.”
Translated by Charbel Tadros
www.seekersofwisdom.tk
May 2008
“There’s not enough” and “He/she doesn’t deserve it” are probably the sentences we most hear nowadays. People are always
complaining of not having enough, or if they have enough, they won’t give the rest to just anyone. According to Gibran Khalil
Gibran in his inspiring book “The Prophet”, “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of
yourself that you truly give.”
We usually think that we have nothing to give. We don’t have enough money, food, fun, joy, love, etc… What we don’t
realize is that we can give of ourselves. We can give what we are to others for free. Let’s say that you’re a doctor, can’t you
do some medical work for free for some needy patients once in a while? Or let’s say that you are a painter, wouldn’t it be
better for your paintings to be hung on the walls of a miserable family’s house to cheer them up and brighten their day than to
stay and rot in your attic?
So you see, whatever you are in life, you can use to give. Would it be better for you to stay home all day complaining of no
work? In addition to that, you get bored so you start consuming more food which leads to more expenses and more debts.
During that time which you uselessly spend complaining, you could go out in the world and help people. You don’t need to
give any material possessions; sometimes a soft word is enough to lift a sad person’s soul to the heavens.
Concerning the deserving or the undeserving, Gibran says: “And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves
to fill his cup from your little stream.” Who are we to say who deserves and who doesn’t? Most religions agree that within every
human is the essence of the divine. Some people, the ones we call “undeserving”, are probably hiding this divinity within. It is
our job to seek it and reawaken their divine nature. The only way to truly uncover this divinity is through giving. When you
give, you give of your own divinity, which touches and moves the divinity in others.
In the end, I would like to mention one kind of givers, the givers of their own body. Those people are truly divine because
they give of their own body and blood in order to help others in dire need. These people help others which they don’t know.
They don’t care about the deserving or the undeserving; they only give freely, happily, and lovingly caring only about saving the
lives of unknown others.
“For in truth it is life that gives unto life - while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.”