“Only downside to your place is the disturbing low amount of extraneous toiletries. No conditioner? Lip gloss? Sunscreen? I jerked my thumb toward the front door. I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower. He grinned, hopping off the bike. Now that is an invitation.”
“If you haven t guessed it already, I said, something fervent and resonating slipping into my tone, I need you, too. Is that a yes? he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around my sholders and searching my face intently. Please let it be yes, he said with a gravelly edge. Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you, even if that s all it is. Let me keep you safe.”
“And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.”
“I don t have a car. His eyes sliced into mine. I walked here, I explained. I m on foot. Angel, he said in a way that sounded like he sincerely hoped I was joking.”
“I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn t feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I saw your ghost in everything. I couldn t escape you and I didn t want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.”
“Do you think they re going to buy that a guy in tacky leather chaps dances like this? I scoffed when he twirled me back into his embrace. Keep it up, and I ll put you in the chaps. He didn t smile, but I sensed an undercurrent of amusement.”
“If I asked you to do something for me, I don t suppose you d listen? When he had my attention, he continued, I m going to take you home. Try to forget tonight happened. Try to act normal, especially around Hank. Don t mention my name. By way of an answer, I shot him a black look and swung out of the Tahoe. He followed suit, coming around to my side. What kind of answer is that? He asked, but his voice wasn t nearly so gruff.”
“It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.”
“Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.”
“It is only in alert silence that truth can be.”
“Intuition is the language of silence, the Existential language. The word in-tuition means to listen within yourself. Intuition is the silent voice within, which is already in contact with the Existence. Intuition is the voice of God. The more you come in contact with the inner silence, the inner emptiness, the more you have access to your intuition. Silence is the nourishment for intuition. If something increases your love, joy and silence, it is the criterion that it is the right path for you. If something decreases your love, joy and silence, it is a sign that you are on the wrong path. Do not compare yourself with others when it comes to take a decision about what you should do, follow the love, joy and silence of your heart and inner being. When you are in contact with your inner silence, you just know what you should do - you do not have to think about it, and you do not need not compare the pros and cons - you just know. You can listen to the advice of others, but always listen to your intuition, to your inner teacher and guide in life, when you take the final decision. The intuition, the language of silence, will always lead your right.”
“Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens. In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear, loneliness and frustration.”
“A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.”
“I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth – the inner language of silence. Now I also notice that this silence is going deeper, and that I go beyond the ego and disappear into the silence. First this brought up fear, but now I am enjoying this meditation of disappering into the silence and to be nobody. I have started experimenting with this phenomenon to understand how to consciously go beyond the ego: yesterday when I took a cofee at a restaurant, I consciously turned my attention within and disappeared into the silence, which was like finding an inner source of bliss. In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, your are not. When I am walking, I consciously experiment with being with Existence without having the mind constantly commenting. I try to just be wordlessly with the people and situations that I meet on my walk. When I can just be with Existence, it opens the door to be one with the Whole.”
“The brief silence that follows is as tender as a rainstorm of daisies.”
“No words. Just my finger pointing in silence. My finger silently saying, ’Unwrap me, darling.”
“First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.”