Monday, April 27, 2015

words create distances

Perhaps ....

The first thing to know is that words create distances and distances make people lonely.

"Silence" is one such word.

I always liked the Zen Buddhist teacher who observed, "Silence is golden and sometimes its color is pure yellow."

But, more seriously, if melting away the chasms of loneliness and putting the lie to something called "distance" is a courageous longing, I suspect that talking up a storm is not all that counterproductive as long as the premise remains ...

Words create distances and distances make people lonely.

Perhaps ...

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