Silence is an ocean

Silence is an ocean.

Speech is a river.

When the ocean is searching for you,

don’t walk into the river.

Listen to the ocean.”

❤  Rumi

27 thoughts on “Silence is an ocean

  1. Wow, beautiful philosophical poem. It sounds philosophically similar to Emily Dickinson’s famous poem “I Started Early – Took my Dog…”. The poem seems to reach into the depths of the author that she rarely expressed herself. Though she was clearly a very deep and philosophical human being, she also experienced the physical desires that every human encounters, which she has expressed in a wonderfully subtle way. This one is also similar!

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