"Language is only a medium for communication of one's thoughts. It is used after thoughts have arisen, and they arise only after the "I"-thought. The "I"-thought is the root of all conversation. One can understand another when one remains without thinking, by the universal language -- silence. Silence is ever-speaking; it is perennial; speech interupts it. Words obstruct that mute language. When there is electricity flowing in a wire, and resistance occurs in its passage, it glows as a lamp or turns as a fan. The wire remains full of electric energy. Similarly, silence is the eternal flow of language obstructed by words. What one fails to know by a conversation that extends to several years, can be known in a flash, in silence or before silence; look at Dakshinamurti's teaching, for example. That is the highest and most effective language.

People insist on asking me questions and so I must reply, but the truth is beyond words."

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi