Silence Against the Dictatorship of Noise

Blaze Pascal once said, all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit by himself for one hour. So practically speaking, okay, you can't do a silent retreat. Can you spend 30 minutes in the morning or in the evening of just downtime, quiet time? Maybe you pick up a book and read. Maybe you open the scriptures, the Bible. maybe it's just, ideally, I think you should move towards silent prayer.