In Silence

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Be still.

Listen to the stones of the wall.

Be silent, they try

To speak your

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Name.

Listen 

to the living walls.

Who are you?

Who

are you? Whose

Silence are you?

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Who (be quiet)

Are you (as these stones

Are quiet.) Do not

Think of what you are

Still less of

What you may one day be.

Rather

Be what you are (but who?) be

The unthinkable one

You do not know.

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~ Thomas Merton

(excerpt from In Silence)

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