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||On Talking|

And then a scholar said, "Speak of Talking."|

And he answered, saying:|

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;|

And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.|

And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.|

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words many indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.|

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.|

The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.|

And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.|

And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.|

In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.|

When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue.|

Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear;|

For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered|

When the colour is forgotten and the vessel is no more.| ||

||The Prophet |le prije ctuca / le pijyctu (the wise teacher)

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