All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
Blaise Pascal
Silence as a noun in the thesaurus means quiet, stillness, peace, hush and calm. It is a weird topic in this world of ours. Silence makes not much of a sense especially in a world where we have gradually bought into noise as parts of our daily living.
Like Blaise Pascal said, all the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms. In fresh studies psychiatric disorders are on the increase and despite up to date developments in technology we still seem unable to grasp what is really going on because at the core of our lives we are unsettled and be it as it may, a rustled core can never produced a rested life; it just doesn’t work that way. The blares of horn, the never ending ring of our phones, the t.v, radio, pager all clamouring for our attention means that we can’t even get enough time to get in touch with our selves. This has led to increase in the number of people attending strangely put together classes not just for the exercise benefit but also for the unexplainable calm and peace they achieve from it.
Silence has therapeutic values which wise people always strive for through walks in garden, sitting alone in their rooms without the t.v on and their phones and pagers off, starring at a painting that portrays refreshing landscapes for hours. All these are good because it helps keep a man sane, in charge of himself; making stress flow out of his body.
Silence is what we crave for; for in it we discover ourselves shapen and conquer our world.
Apata Olaoluwa
We can only bring out the best in us when we ourselves discover the best in us and this can only be done in silence. The whole world makes way for the man who through silence and deep critical meditation finds out his path and threads his way and like it’s said in the Talmud; If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools.
