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Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

Jack Kerouac
Dream, Silence, Attention
Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.57, City Lights Books

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Jack Kerouac
Wisdom, Silence, Dharma Bums

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

Jack Kerouac
Silence, World, Lessons
Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

The silence was an intense roar.

Jack Kerouac
Silence, Intense
Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, James Baldwin, James Purdy (1962). “Some postwar American writers”

and silence is the golden mountain

Jack Kerouac
Silence, Mountain, Golden
Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.71, Penguin

I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.

Jack Kerouac
Mother, Teaching, Silence
Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

Jack Kerouac
Stress, Blood, Silence
Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.

Jack Kerouac
Mad, Silence, Mind
Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.74, Grove Press

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