Between two sounds there is silence

Between two sounds there is silence, 
between two breaths there is a breathless moment. 
Between two thoughts there is a mental quiet. 
That silence, the breathless moment, the mental quiet, 
is a gate between two walls. 
You may open it only to friendly thoughts 
or you may let in a crowd of disheveled rowdies. 
Your own will is your gate-keeper."

~ Swami Veda Bharati  Light of Ten Thousand Suns