Blog 44 Silence (Gary)

            So often I forget that my creative juices moisten in the quiet rather than the business of life.  Somehow I have been brought to believe that I am more creative if I am busy.  In that state of being busy, thoughts and ideas come up and they only occasionally stick.  But in the quiet, when I am still, I create an idea and act on it.  It becomes substantial in the stillness.  It's like most of these words.  They have made it to the paper because I have been quiet enough to hear them.  So the truth is that I am more liable to implement a change or creative idea if I spend time in silence.  I certainly like the idea of more silent time.  The author Carlos Castenada called it the "do nothing" time.  Most importantly, it is a time to feel.  The one time I saw him, his departing words to everyone were, “Remember the most important thing you can do is to be quiet for one second a day.”

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