Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows. Lucian Blaga More Quotes by Lucian Blaga More Quotes From Lucian Blaga Early in life, when I first saw waterlilies on the ripples of a lake, I didn't think they were flowers which grew from the water, but rather flowers which were mirrored from the shore into the lake. So many flowers grow in the silent waters of our souls, and they unfold their petals over the glaze of our consciousness: they grow from within us, but we think them reflections from the external world. Lucian Blaga flower reflection thinking In dreams, through longings, we can see— Lucian Blaga dust gold dream