The silence --- not the noise, not the visible --- made all things that ever were, or are.

The silence does not make ears and toss them out into the noise by the handful.

Silence makes ears where there are places ready for them. Anything will come out of silence when somebody is ready for it.

There are more things in the silence, in the stillness, than ever came out of it.

All these things are eager to get out into the noise-they are pressing for expression.

Everything left in the silence now is much finer and nicer and more enjoyable than anything that has thus far come out into the noise.

Do you want something better than you ever had, or saw, or tasted, or smelled, or felt? Have you tried all these things and yet are not satisfied? Have you run to and fro for satisfaction, for happiness, and failed to find it?

If you are satisfied that you can't be satisfied with the world as it is, then shut your eyes to the world as it is.

And do not call it an "evil" world because you are not satisfied with it.

It is a good world, a beautiful world. It suits other people. Let them enjoy it. After a while they will get tired of it also, and follow you, perhaps.

There is just one place of refuge when one is tired of the world as it is.

Go into the stillness.

The fine little breezes there are far more gentle and more powerful than the winds and cyclones, floods and earthquakes out in the noise.