The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.
Jack KerouacFor the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.
Jack KerouacRoaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
Jack Kerouac