The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in you…

Jack Kerouac
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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 (1986). The Dharma Bums, p.157, Penguin
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