In praise of silence

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

We must become the pitiless censors of ourselves

THE WORLD USED TO BE SILENT NOW IT HAS TOO MANY VOICES AND THE NOISE IS A CONSTANT DISTRACTION THEY MULTIPLY, INTENSIFY THEY WILL DIVERT YOUR ATTENTION TO WHAT’S CONVENIENT AND FORGET TO TELL YOU ABOUT YOURSELF WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF MANY STIMULATIONS IF YOU ARE FOCUSED YOU ARE HARDER TO REACH IF YOU ARE DISTRACTED YOU ARE AVAILABLE YOU ARE DISTRACTED YOU ARE AVAILABLE YOU WANT FLATTERY ALWAYS LOOKING TO WHERE IT’S AT YOU WANT TO TAKE PART IN EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING TO BE A PART OF YOU YOUR HEAD IS SPINNING FAST AT THE END OF YOUR SPINE UNTIL YOU HAVE NO FACE AT ALL AND YET IF THE WORLD WOULD SHUT UP EVEN FOR A WHILE PERHAPS WE WOULD START HEARING THE DISTANT RHYTHM OF AN ANGRY YOUNG TUNE – AND RECOMPOSE OURSELVES PERHAPS HAVING DECONSTRUCTED EVERYTHING WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT PUTTING EVERYTHING BACK TOGETHER SILENCE YOURSELF