Silence and Light:Louis Kahn's Words
All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we,
are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow,
and the shadow belongs to Light.
——Louis Kahn
Then there is Thomas Merton:(by the letter from Jim,I tried to tell him Kahn's silence)
"The solitary life, being silent, clears away the smoke-screen of words that man has laid down between his mind and things. In solitude we remain face to face with the naked being of things. And yet we find that the nakedness of reality which we have feared, is neither a matter of terror nor for shame. It is clothed in the friendly communion of silence, and this silence is related to love. The world our words have attempted to classify, to control and even to despise (because they could not contain it) comes close to us, for silence teaches us to know reality by respecting it where words have defiled it.
When we have lived long enough alone with the reality around us, our veneration will learn how to bring forth a few good words about it from the silence which is the mother of Truth.
Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality."
To me and 雨然
PS：中文版已经在脑海中消失了，其实应该趁记忆比较鲜明的时候来读他的话。
现在重读等于重新开始，也有好处。
难懂的是are made of Light which has been spent
我想了下，觉得也许有“ 随着阳光照射，物体呈现 ”的感觉，
MADE OF 有种光参与了物的构成，spent 有随着时间的流逝的意思
are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow,
and the shadow belongs to Light.
——Louis Kahn
Then there is Thomas Merton:(by the letter from Jim,I tried to tell him Kahn's silence)
"The solitary life, being silent, clears away the smoke-screen of words that man has laid down between his mind and things. In solitude we remain face to face with the naked being of things. And yet we find that the nakedness of reality which we have feared, is neither a matter of terror nor for shame. It is clothed in the friendly communion of silence, and this silence is related to love. The world our words have attempted to classify, to control and even to despise (because they could not contain it) comes close to us, for silence teaches us to know reality by respecting it where words have defiled it.
When we have lived long enough alone with the reality around us, our veneration will learn how to bring forth a few good words about it from the silence which is the mother of Truth.
Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality."
To me and 雨然
PS：中文版已经在脑海中消失了，其实应该趁记忆比较鲜明的时候来读他的话。
现在重读等于重新开始，也有好处。
难懂的是are made of Light which has been spent
我想了下，觉得也许有“ 随着阳光照射，物体呈现 ”的感觉，
MADE OF 有种光参与了物的构成，spent 有随着时间的流逝的意思
