CDS 081109-STILLNESS/SILENCE-CENOTAPH, EMPTY TOMB

The Silence

"The first stroke of eleven produced a magical effect. The tram cars glided into stillness, motors ceased to cough and fume, and stopped dead, and the mighty-limbed dray horses hunched back upon their loads and stopped also, seeming to do it of their own volition. Someone took off his hat, and with a nervous hesitancy the rest of the men bowed their heads also. Here and there an old soldier could be detected slipping unconsciously into the posture of 'attention'. An elderly woman, not far away, wiped her eyes, and the man beside her looked white and stern. Everyone stood very still ... The hush deepened. It had spread over the whole city and become so pronounced as to impress one with a sense of audibility. It was a silence which was almost pain ... And the spirit of memory brooded over it all."

Manchester Guardian, November 12th 1919



////////////////It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly,
Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.



/////////////////It is more important to know where you are going than to get
there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement."

-- Mabel Newcomber



///////////////B GITA-Chapter IV: The Yoga of the Division of Wisdom

IV.38. NA HI JNAANENA SADRISHAM PAVITRAM IHA VIDYATE;
TAT SWAYAM YOGASAMSIDDHAH KAALENAATMANI VINDATI.

(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
'Verily there is no purifier in this world like knowledge.
He who is perfected in Yoga finds it in the Self in time.'

IV.39. SHRADDHAAVAAN LABHATE JNAANAM TATPARAH SAMYATENDRIYAH;
JNAANAM LABDHVAA PARAAM SHAANTIM ACHIRENAADHIGACCHATI.
'The man who is full of faith, who is devoted to it, and who
has subdued all the senses, obtains (this) knowledge; and,
having obtained the knowledge, he goes at once to the
supreme peace.'



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