You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to
realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and
a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it.
It talks. And I can hear it. You
have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange,
beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and
you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But
you have to. [Chaim
Potok, The Chosen]
Daily I learn to listen. Daily I learn to love the sweetnesses
of Quiet, Silence, and Pausing.
I used to BE someone who didn’t know how to BE quiet. How to
wait. How to hear what is important. And I often tuned people out. Is it any
wonder that so late in Life I discover something I thought I disliked is
actually my preference?!
Music is a total constant… a song can take you back instantly to a
moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your
or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment. [Sarah Dessen, Just Listen]
This
is utterly true.
I
love you, Currie
2 comments:
Ah! I have heard and felt the pain of the world alone in silence.
Music can transcend time...sometimes in just a few beats that vibrate the memory cells in your brain--LOL! ;)
I love your line..."Daily I learn to listen. Daily I learn to love the sweetnesses of Quiet, Silence, and Pausing." a lesson that was long in learning for myself too. Music has came and gone and came again as an must in my life. I have found of late that I appreciate it more and more and my choices has become even more eclectic than ever.
Sending you LOVE & STRENGTH & HEALING OF SPIRIT.
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