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 2. ...In a seed, the tree which may spring from it is hidden; it is in a condition of potential existence; is there; but it will not admit definition. How much less, then, will those seeds which that tree in its turn may yield.

 3. ...The limitless ocean of negative light does not proceed from a centre, for it is centreless, but it concentrates a centre.

 4. A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

 5. All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

 6. Although one perceives non-existent reality, Who can believe in its non-existence? How could a painted peacock Devour real pearls?

 7. An horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

 8. And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.

 9. At the dawning of that day all objects in manifestation stream forth from the Unmanifest, and when evening falls they are dissolved into It again. In truth, therefore, there is the Eternal Unmanifest, which is beyond and above the Unmanifest Spirit of Creation, which is never destroyed when all these beings perish.

10. Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.

11. Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

12. But let me silent be: For silence is the speech of love, The music of the sphere above.

13. Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

14. Clay is moulded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.

15. Cosmic night, the sinking of manifestation into a state of rest, comes about when the forth-rushing expansive force of creation is interlocked and stabilized into equilibrium.

16. Dark night that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes, Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense.

17. Darkness which may be felt.

18. He (The Eternal) created a reality out of nothing, called the nonentity into existence and hewed, as it were, colossal pillars from intangible air.

19. Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

20. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness till it smiled.

21. I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

22. I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

23. If a word be worth a nickel, silence is worth two.

24. In the first age of the gods, existence was born from non-existence.

25. In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

26. It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.

27. It is better either to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

28. Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

29. None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

30. Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing.

31. Nothing is more useful than silence.

32. Nothing proceeds from nothingness,as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

33. Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.

34. Our noisy years seem moments in the being of the eternal silence.

35. Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

36. Silence is learned by the many misfortunes of life.

37. Silence is one great art of conversation.

38. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full formed and majestic, into the delights of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

39. Silence is the genius of the fool and one of the virtues of the wise.

40. Silence is the mother of Truth.

41. Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.

42. Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.

43. Silence more musical than any song.

44. Silence provokes no man's envy, and wounds no man's self- love.

45. Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

46. Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

47. Slight is the merit of keeping silence on a matter, on the other hand serious is the guilt of talking on things whereon we should be silent.

48. That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

49. The causes of existence had been done away with; the visible that was, and the invisible that is, rested in eternal non-being - the one being.

50. The Eternal is the intensest form of existence, pure being unlimited by form or reaction; but it is existence of another type than that to which we are accustomed, and therefore it appears to us as non-existence because it conforms to none of the requirements we are accustomed to think of as determining existence.

51. The eternal parent wrapped in her ever invisible robes had slumbered once again for seven eternities. Time was not, for it lay asleep in the infinite bosom of duration. Universal mind was not, for there were no celestial beings to contain it. The seven ways to bliss were not. The great causes of misery were not, for there was no one to produce and get ensnared by them. Darkness alone filled the boundless all, for father, mother and son were once more one, and the son had not awakened yet for the new wheel, and his pilgrimage thereon.

52. The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

53. The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

54. The Imperishable - It is not coarse, not fine, not short, not long, not glowing like fire, not adhesive like water, without shadow and without darkness, without air and without space, without stickiness intangible, odorless, tasteless, without eye, without ear, without voice, without wind, without energy, without breath, without mouth, (without personal or family name, unaging, undying, without fear, immortal, stainless, not uncovered, not covered), without measure, without inside and without outside...The Imperishable is the unseen Seer, the unheard Hearer,the unthought Thinker, the ununderstood Understander. Other than It there is naught that sees...hears...thinks... understands. Across this Imperishable is space woven.

55. The sage manages affairs without action And spreads doctrines without words. All things arise, and he does not turn away from them. He produces them, but does not take possession of them. He acts, but does not rely on his own ability. He accomplishes his task, but does not claim credit for it. It is precisely because he does not claim credit that his accomplishment remains with him.

56. The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Non-being penetrates that in which there is no space. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. Few in the world can understand teaching without words and the advantage of taking no action.

57. The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

58. The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need Of aid from them - she was the Universe.

59. The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

60. There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

61. There is an eloquent silence: it serves sometimes to approve, sometimes to condemn; there is a mocking silence; there is a respectful silence.

62. There is no reply so sharp as silent contempt.

63. They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars - on stars void of human races. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

64. Three things are ever silent: Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.

65. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

66. We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

67. What is called the spirit of the void is where there is nothing. It is not included in man's knowledge. Of course the void is nothingness. By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void. People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment... Polish the twofold spirit heart and mind, and sharpen the twofold perception and sight. When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void...

68. When the Holy One who created the Universe wished to reveal its hidden aspect, the light within the darkness, He showed how things were intermingled. Thus out of darkness comes light and from the concealed comes the revealed. In the same manner does good emerge from evil and mercy from justice, since they too are intertwined.

69. When the light is made to move in a circle, all the energies of heaven and earth, of the light and dark, are crystallized. That is what is termed seed-like thinking, or purification of the energy, or purification of the idea. When one begins to apply this magic it is as if, in the middle of being, there were non-being.

70. When the tree falls The shadow flies.

71. Where every something, being blent together Turns to a wild of nothing.

72. Where from do all these worlds come? They come from space. All beings arise from space, and into space they return: space is indeed their beginning, and space is their final end.

73. Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.

74. Why and Wherefore set out one day, To hunt for a wild Negation. They agreed to meet at a cool retreat On the Point of Interrogation.