You cannot say anything, yet you cannot say nothing.
Speak quickly! Speak quickly!
-Wumen
There is nothing to say.
The mind can only speak
about things from the past
or things in the future.
In the present moment,
there is nothing to say.
-Leonard Jacobson
If you open and your mouth and go on discussing further,
White clouds cover thousands of miles.
-Si-An
When it comes to two sages having no ideas
they will both have nothing to talk about.
-Guo Xiang
An interior man will make more impressions on hearts
by a single word animated by the spirit of God,
than another by a whole discourse which has cost him much labor
and in which he has exhausted all his power of reasoning.
-Louis Lallement
The four levels of speech
correspond to the four bodies described by yogic scriptures.
The spoken word is the speech of the physical body,
thought is the speech of the subtle body,
intuitive knowing is the speech of the causal body
and pure Consciousness is the speech of the Self.
-Shakarananda
