It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Patrick Rothfuss
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  4. In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75) - Swami Satchidananda

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