"There ain't nothing more powerful than the odor of mendacity".You can smell it. It smells like death." That's what I recently heard Big Daddy say in a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The Trappist monk Thomas Merton once wrote that someday they will sell us the rain; in saying that he implied that any essential, beautiful aspect of life could be destroyed by a society hell-bent on destruction through war and consumerism. Now that they have sold us noise and speed to eliminate slow silence, we are in far deeper trouble. We can't think straight, if we can think at all. And clear thinking has never been more important.
Gandhi, the revolutionary, put it perfectly, "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
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