Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
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Silence is not the absence of sound; it is the freedom to listen to God.
How to Avoid God
Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health and (above all) on your own grievances. Keep the radio on. Live in a crowd. Use plenty of sedation. If you must read books, select them very carefully. But you’d be safer to stick to the papers. You’ll find the advertisements helpful; especially those with a sexy or a snobbish appeal.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation… tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied—it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear;
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun more last than star
Silence is the limit of our world of description or language. Silence is silence and completely different from any kind of language.
Silence exists so that we might speak to God. And it is in silence that God communicates His graces to us.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
The stars sing an anthem of glory
I cannot put into speech.