If you talk all the time
You'll never hear what Anybody else has to say
And therefore
All you'll have to talk
About is your
Own conversation
The same is true for people Who think all the time
That means
When I use the word think Talking to yourself
Sub vocal conversation
The constant chit chat
Of symbols and images
And talk and words
Inside your skull
Now if you do that
All the time
You'll find that you have Nothing to think about
Except thinking
And just as you have
To stop talking to hear What others have to say You have to stop
Thinking to find out what l
Life is about
And the moment you
Stop thinking
You will come into Immediate contact
With the
Unspeakable world
The five colors make
A man blind
The five tones make
A man deaf
Because if you can
Only see five colors
You're blind
And if you can only hear five tones in music
You're deaf
The world of color
Is infinite
As is the world of sound And it is only through Stopping fixing conceptions On the world of color
And sound
That you really begin to Hear it and see it
That unless you do have That basic framework
Of a certain kind of order And a certain
Kind of discipline
The force of liberation
Will blow the
World to pieces
It's too strong a current
For the wire
The most ordinary sights And sounds and smells
The texture of shadows
On the floor in front
Of you
All these things
Without being named
And saying
That's a shadow
That's red
That's brown
That's somebody's foot
When you don't name Things any longer
You start seeing them
It's too strong a current for the wire