We need silence in the sense of pristine attention in order to do good in the world. The Quakers practice silence together, which by that we haven't touched on shared silence,. But silence is magnified when it's shared. And so together they're tuning into what is true, what is the word that needs to be spoken and breaking the silence. An ability to attune to silence is important that we resolve this without blame or softening our positionality.
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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