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August 02, 2016

Gautama Buddha on Silence

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices:
those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent.
Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.
— Gautama Buddha,
Sutta Nipata
Standard translation

[119SN]