When was the last time you sat in silence?
True silence. No phone nearby. No Spotify. How long did it last? 10 seconds? 10 minutes?
This week I came across the wonderful observation that we should let “silence do the work.”
Meaning, if we want to reset our emotions, and therefore our lives, we need to enter into silence.
Maria Popova once pointed me to the painter, poet and author Etel Adnan who lived into her 90s, and in her last book Shifting the Silence wrote these amazing words about silence:
“The universe makes a sound… in the core of this sound there’s a silence, a silence that creates that sound, which is not its opposite, but its inseparable soul. And this silence can also be heard. This silence is the preparation of things to come.”
What might happen if you let silence do the work? What might you feel? How might it prepare you for “things to come.”
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