Silence
Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism: So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say.
~ Gilles Deleuze
What a relief to have nothing to say
Always been skeptical of eloquence – related idea from Confucio
Triple Flame
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3 minute pauses, every 3 hours
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.
— Neil Strauss
Seek wordless states of being
Wrote this in response to seeing how loved friends were projecting dangerous ideas publicly – ideas that had a heavy dissociation between their intentions and the message they were sharing –, all while forgetting what they were risking in the process, and that their micro communities trust them more than any big media corp.