idle gaze 045: enjoy the silence.
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idle gaze 045: enjoy the silence.
“Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”23
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“On the same boat on which I arrived in 1926,” Illich explained,the first loudspeaker was landed on the island. Few people there had ever heard of such a thing. Up to that day, all men and women had spoken with more or less equally powerful voices. Henceforth this would change. Henceforth the access to the microphone would determine whose voice sha... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Impossible Silences - The Convivial Society
Illich is encouraging a silence grounded in humility, a silence that arises not from a desire to be heard but from a desire to hear and to understand.
L. M. Sacasas • Impossible Silences - The Convivial Society
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn?” she inquired. “Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most
... See moreNorton Juster • The Phantom Tollbooth
Silence is the poetics of space. What it means to be in a place.
Emergence Magazine • Emergence Magazine - Sanctuaries of Silence
The quiet made her realise how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had meaning. You heard something and you had to pay attention.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
So today, will you be part of the problem or part of the solution? Will you hear the wisdom of the world or drown it out with more noise?
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
To get caught up in a buzzing commentary on how irritating the noise is makes for a noisy relationship with noise.