Someone asked Abraham Lincoln,
“When you speak for an hour,
how much do you have to think?”
Lincoln said,
“Not at all.
When one has to speak for an hour,
thinking is unnecessary.”
They asked,
“And when you speak for ten minutes?”
He said,
“Then some effort is needed.
One has to think.”
They asked again,
“And when you speak for only two minutes?”
Lincoln said,
“Then I cannot sleep the whole night.
Because then
the rubbish must be dropped,
and only the diamond must remain.”
When words sink into silence,
they become telegraphic.
They become brief.
They become luminous.
The Upanishads were born
in such moments.
That is why the infinite
fits into the small.
Everything is compressed.
Only the essence remains—
the distilled truth.
All that is unnecessary
simply disappears.
~ Translated from Nirvan Upanishad by Osho (Hindi Discourse), Discourse 1
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