08/12/1991, Jakarta, Indonesia
We are waiting in the hall of a movie theater and from a distance I can see that a man is trying to say something to others using hand signals. A friend who knew the person told me that this guy has given up talking on purpose. He is fasting by not talking for a while. For him this is a spiritual practice which requires tremendous patience and tempering of his urgency to react to whatever people say, and to pass judgments. A tragic event in his life has made him do this regularly. He then said: this man has learned to view everything and everyone with the eye of spirit.
I learned a great lesson today.
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