Eric Liu: Jarvis shows us what it means to be able to receive a teaching out of a difficult situation. When COVID first hit, one of his block mates was the first person in San Quentin to die. It's often the internal noise, our responses to what's going on around us that produce the most suffering. If we really want to get to profound quiet, there's this moral dimension to it., Liu says.
Leigh Marz and Justin Zorn discuss their book, Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise, explore the different types of noise we all experience in our lives, and why we need to find silence amidst all the noise.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- How silence can bring us to place of expansion and openness rather than contraction
- Remembering that silence is always here and accessible and is more than just the absense of noise
- Understanding the three types of noise: auditory, information, and internal
- How we can practice noticing the noise around us and adjust our reaction to it
- Important strategies for dealing with the infinitie informatioal noise in the world
- Why we need to learn Feeling into what truly brings us quiet, what signals alert us that we’re taking in too much noise!
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