The Silence of Love

A wise man who was visiting a river to take a bath, found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled and asked. "Why do people shout in anger shout at each other?"

The disciples thought for a while, on of them said, "because we loose our calm, we shout." But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner."  asked the wise man.

The disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples. Finally, the wise man explained, "when two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other."

The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.

What happens when two people falls in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small, the wise man continued, "when they love each other even more, what happens? They don't speak, only whisper, they get even closer to each other in their love.

Finally, they even need not to whisper, they only look at each other and that's all. That is how two people are when they love each other.

He looked at his disciples and said, "So when you argue do no let your hearts get distant, do not say words that distance each other more, or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return."

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