Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours Yours are the eyes with which he looks with Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good... Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
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Sometimes there would be a rush of noisy visitors and the silence of the monastery would be shattered. This would upset the monks; not the Master who seemed just as content with the noise as with the silence. To those protesting he said one day, "Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. "