Let us then labor for an inward stillness,
An inward stillness and an inward healing,
That perfect silence where the lips and heart
Are still, and we no longer entertain
Our own imperfect thought and vain opinions,
But God alone speaks in us, and we wait
In singleness of heart, that we may know
His will, and in the silence of our spirits,
That we may do His will, and do that only!
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is a call for a fierce and vigilant kind of neutrality, I think - a militant agnosticism. He's saying that words only get in the Way.
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