The sounds of silence. (last thoughts).(quietude in one's life)(Brief Article)

Publication: Vegetarian Times

Publication Date: 01-APR-02

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Silence is a simple concept: Listen to it and you hear nothing. But pull back the veil and actually experience silence and you discover what exists in a world devoid of noise. That, however, is quite a challenge in a culture that routinely uses words like awkward and deafening to describe the state of silence.

As children, we're taught the value of tangible creation--the song composed with sound, the essay written with words, the painting made with color. This reliance on the palpable follows us into adulthood, where we treasure that which we can predict and understand. But silence is neither tangible nor...

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