{"id":1876,"date":"2019-10-14T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T08:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2019-10-30T21:45:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:45:50","slug":"tt-1942-listening-to-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1876","title":{"rendered":"TT1942 – Listening to Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Listening to Silence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Listen!
Stop what you are doing!
What do you hear?
Listen for those subtle noises
That are normally drowned-out
In the busyness of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen more!
The chatter, the clicks, the hubbub
Listen to the space between the noises
They are quieter and even more silent
Than the silence you started to listen to –
Quieter, even, than the quietest sound!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What else lies in the space between?
It is a space to meditate on
The past and the future.
It is the place of pure presence.
Absence of anything,
It holds the answer to everything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claude Debussy once said,
\u201cMusic is the space between the notes.\u201d
The notes might dance harmoniously,
But the rests dance closer to the truth.
A hidden message that you can only hear
If you listen to for the silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conversation, there are those that compete
To drown-out the silence.  They do not listen
They are on \u201cpermanent send\u201d,
Not yet charmed by (nor knowing of) the fact
That they were given two ears and one mouth
For a reason: to listen twice as hard!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try it for a minute, then an hour, then even a day.
Muted by the desire to listen more.
Not just to the noise, but more importantly,
To the space between the notes
That play to the timeless music of glorious silence.
The answer lies in the space between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a9 Lorne Mitchell 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picture from iStockPhoto 178359962
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Listen!Stop what you are doing!What do you hear?Listen for those subtle noisesThat are normally drowned-outIn the busyness of life. Listen more!The chatter, the clicks, the hubbubListen to the space between the noisesThey are quieter and even more silentThan the silence you started to listen to –Quieter, even, than the quietest sound! What else lies in … <\/p>\n

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