“Remember, the best shelter is in the silence of your soul. And if you can develop that silence, nothing in the world can touch you…
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Hasan Javadi & Susan Sallée, from Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad; "Let us believe in the beginning of a cold season"
[Text ID: "I am naked, naked, naked / naked like the moments of silence / between the phrases of love"]
The worst that can happen often happens in silence. It is not the explosion, but the aftermath, when you see through the smoke and ash, that you know how much you have lost.