January 12

I tell the truth.

The world is hurt.

I tell a lie.

God is hurt.

What am I to do?

Silence.

I must live in silence and become the smiling breath of silence. Lo, the world loves me, and God blesses me.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
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