THE POWER OF SILENCE - Notes - PART A5 - NOISE
I purchased The Power of Silence by Robert Cardinal Sarah back in 2017. Even after eight years, its pages - filled with profound wisdom - still wait to be fully read and understood.
I am not sure I will ever truly finish the book, let alone grasp the depth of each insight it offers.
Still, I hope that by taking notes and organizing them thoughtfully, I might begin to better comprehend and absorb the treasures it contains.
I am sharing these notes here, and I hope that the gems noted down may bless you as much as they continue to bless me.
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Noise is never serene, and it is not conducive to understanding another person.
Noise wearies us.
Cities have become noisy furnaces in which even nights are not spared the assault of noise.
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Without noise, man falls into a dull, insistent uneasiness. He is accustomed to permanent background noise, which sickens yet reassures him.
Without noise, man is feverish, lost.
Noise gives him security, like a drug on which he has become dependent.
But noise is a dangerous, deceptive medicine, a diabolic lie that helps man avoid confronting himself in his interior emptiness.
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In "I Want To See God", Fr Marie-Eugene wrote:
We live in a fever of movement and activity....
People no longer know how to wait and be silent.
And yet, they appear to be seeking silence and solitude.
Whatever changes time may bring, God remains the same, Tu autem idem Ipse es.
It is always in silence that He utters His Word, and it is in silence that the soul must receive it.
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Sounds and emotions detach us from ourselves.
Silence forces man to reflect upon his own life.
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What will become of our world if it does not look for intervals of silence?
Interior rest and harmony can flow only from silence.
Without it, life does not exist.
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Keeping quiet has the appearance of being a weakness, a sort of ignorance or lack of will.
In the modern system, the silent person becomes someone who does not know how to defend himself.
In the modern world, someone who speaks has importance and value, whereas another who keeps quiet gets little consideration.
Noise has acquired the nobility that silence once possessed.
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St Paul in his 2nd letter to the Corinthians:
For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of serenity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. (2 Cor 2:17)
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