The Sound of Silence Quotes

“Pāli is a scholastic language now, it’s not a living language that changes. So it kind of holds concepts and then allows us to use words, to have an agreed vocabulary, ways of expressing and thinking that aren’t just bound into cultural conditioning or personal descriptions of experience.”
― Ajahn Sumedho, The Sound of Silence: The Selected Teachings of Ajahn Sumedho

“It’s just what it is, it’s natural, it’s nature. It’s just the way it is. And you’re a witness to it, because you recognize you’re in this position of the Buddho, or the knower, the witness.”
― Ajahn Sumedho, The Sound of Silence: The Selected Teachings of Ajahn Sumedho

“We can develop wisdom through the conditions and the experiences that we have in this life—which are not guaranteed always to be the best.”
― Ajahn Sumedho, The Sound of Silence: The Selected Teachings of Ajahn Sumedho