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The only means of authentic spiritual communication

Abhishiktananda
October 1994 (Vol. VII, No. 9)

The only means of authentic spiritual communication is the interior speech which is uttered in the silence from which the Word emerged, and which is only heard in the silence.

~ Abhishiktananda
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