If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
Two minutes a year, on Armistice Day, are given to silence, and all the other minutes of the year to largely futile bustle. The proportion is wrong; if the silence were longer, the bustle would be less futile.
Source: The decay of meditation (written in Nov. 7, 1931 and pub. in 1975 in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975.］
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