Wednesday, September 2, 2009

What does quiet sound like?

Have you ever noticed how loud our lives are? I began to think about this recently. I mused about what quiet sounds like. Sure, we talk about inside voices. "Kids, we are going inside, so talk with your inside voices." Sacred places like libraries have a reputation for quiet. But, have you noticed a library isn't very quiet either. Night time can be really loud too. Between the occasional car passing on the road, to the neighbors up late; from the crickets to the random bird flying by, even night time is loud. And the cemetery, too, can be a very loud place. The wind stirs the leaves, the lawn mower drones on and on.....

How close is quiet to stillness? Are they connected? Is is possible to drink in quiet when your soul is still? So much of what makes success is in the state of mind, the focus of our thinking. Do you crave quiet? Maybe it's time to find a stillness in your soul.

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