from Speaking and Language

[ensenchiridion]

Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades of each. There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy; the sober silence that goes with a solemn animal face; the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul, whence emerge new thoughts; the alive silence of alert perception, ready to say, “

Comments

[nightspore]

This is great. Growing Up Absurd?

[ensenchiridion]

Glad you like it.

It's not from Speaking and Language? I came across it here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/13/paul-goodman-silence/