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I saw a quote somewhere that read “Silence is the language of God,” and a couple of days later my AirPods finally stopped working. I interpreted this as divine intervention, and began experimenting with quiet in various scenarios and settings. I’m typically the type of person who has some sort of music/podcast/video/voice in their ears at all times, and frankly I believe it was stunting my ability to think freely and withstand discomfort. I was beginning to feel that I was almost cheapening the media I consumed by multitasking, and I am hoping to renew my imagination and sense of mindfulness/presence by developing a better relationship to Quiet. I am training myself to listen to the naturally occurring sounds of my own existence rather than drowning out the world all the time. So far so good.
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@heavensimulator
Mar 16, 2025
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@evezarik
Could not relate more It also makes the times you do listen to/watch things so much better. I realised this habit of constantly consuming media was also taking some of its taste away Not to mention, that kind of overstimulation can ruin your patience overall There are so many thoughts that never occur, so much imagination that doesn’t get used So much that gets lost in us distracting ourselves And it’s SO important each of us ask why we do that in the first place Regardless of the love we have for these distractions (which started out of pure passion, but accidentally became part of our life habits too) there needs to be equal space for you next to all the noise
Apr 6, 2025
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@mariamaria
This is making me giggle because I’ve been reading about God from the book God:An Anatomy and the author talks about how the reason for temples to be very silent is because God hates that humans are such noisy creatures 😆 so you describe it perfectly by saying that silence is God’s language
Mar 16, 2025

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