Articles / the Power of Silence

06.01.2025
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Gateway to Eternity: 33 Essential insights from Maurice Maeterlinck
Friends of Portal12, we are delighted to share with you 33 essential insights from a unique and profound book by Maurice Maeterlinck, a treasure we recently acquired. Titled Our Eternity, this masterpiece by the Belgian writer and Nobel laureate is among his most profound philosophical and spiritual works. Published in 1913, this work delves deeply into fundamental

29.03.2024
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Maurice Maeterlinck's Appreciation for the Power of Silence as a Special Moment of Awareness
Maeterlinck believed that silence finds its most fertile ground in human humility. "Silence surrounds us on all sides," he remarked. "It is the foundation of our semi-conscious existence, and when one of us, trembling, knocks at one of the doors of the Abyss, it is always the same attentive silence that opens the Door."