The people of the world are limbs from one body,
sharing one essence.
When a single limb is oppressed,
all the others suffer agony.
~ Sa'adi of Shiraz
We can make our minds
so like still water
that beings gather about us
that they may see,
it may be, their own images,
and live for a moment with a clearer,
perhaps even with a fiercer life
because of our quiet,
our silence.