So, I'm thinking about silence...
Just a brief moment's thought, really... but I wanted to share my feelings on it.
There are different silences, but you have to observe carefully to know which one is being experienced.
There is a lonely desperate silence of being/feeling completely alone and misunderstood in the world, this one hurts and my heart reaches out to anyone experiencing this silence.
There is a silence of peaceful spiritual solitude that a person gets from being totally at one with themselves and the universe and this good, it is good for the heart, the mind, the body to shut out all noise and just experience a quietness of the soul that we just don't get any more, thanks to all the noise making things in the world now. If you can find some time in your day to feel this silence it will balance you - do it.
There is the silence of two people who have nothing to say to each other any more, that one is pretty sad too and needs no explanation.
And then.... then... there is the silence of two people who have plenty they could say, but words are not needed because they are so in tune with each other that they can just *be* together without words and their silence is an enviable one. They are not concerned with making the noise of conversation because the quiet makes them uncomfortable, they are not looking for things to say to shoo the silence away because they know that silence is their friend, it helps them connect to each other in a way that words and outside noises interfere with. These are very lucky people because they are not just at one with themselves but at one with another soul and there is a joy and peacefulness that you simply cannot manufacture for these people, they have transcended the need to always have noise..... They are blessed..
That's my view on our complicated friend. Don't be afraid of silence because that is when you can best hear things that you need to hear and feel things that people today just don't... feel...
