Silence is Golden - Ha!

Silence Is Golden - Ha!

I love the quiet time when I purposefully block the noise and distractions of the outside world and turn inward.

When the outer world is blocked out, however, I notice my inner world comes alive.

There is no quiet on the inside.

The inner voice, which includes two main characters in my life, the critic and the analyzer, starts chatting with me like they have the stage all to themselves.

Have you noticed this phenomenon?

These voices will detail the agenda for the day, analyze situations I've been contemplating and continue to prattle on while silence is my objective.

How to cope with these intrusions into silence?

Bring awareness to the silence rather than the voices. 

This quote from Kathleen Dean Moore gives us a critical perspective:

“When you are quiet, the silence blows against your mind and etches away everything that is soft and unimportant. What is left is what is real: pure awareness and the very hardest questions.”

Howard