We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought, fearing that if we do not hold to them with the utmost tenacity, everything will vanish into chaos. We must repeat: memory, thought, language, & logic are essential to human life. They are one half of sanity. But a person who is only half sane is insane. To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words — to think, remember, & plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about.
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