That relates to the quietness where you’ve
heard the proverbial saying: “You can hear a pin drop!” That’s the sound that some hear constantly within
their souls as they attempt to live their daily lives.
With so many things going on around us it
is at times almost impossible to truly hear the things that are most
important. The things that we should be
giving the top priority. However, whether
we can sit on a front porch and hear the melodious singing of the birds in the
trees or perhaps the grasshopper making its chirping sounds at our feet (an
illusion to the 1970s TV show “Kung Fu” where Master Po (Keye Luke) takes on a
new young student Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine) to train him from a “grasshopper”
to become a Shaolin priest and martial arts expert), the gift of being able to
listen to the sounds around us is a marvelous one indeed.
The problem today is that many people HEAR
what is going on around them or what is being said to them, but they don’t
LISTEN to what is being said. You may
have experienced this truth if you have children. There are times when you tell them something
and you know they hear your voice, but by their actions they obviously were not
listening to what you said.
This is also illustrated within news
reports from political figures. They
come on your TV or radio and talk for say 15-20 minutes. You listen to what they are saying trying to understand
the words that are coming out of their mouths.
Of course, I think politicians take a course on how to speak eloquently
and not really say anything. But that is
another matter for discussion.
After the politician talks, they have an
individual come on to tell you what he said when you thought you had just
listened to every word flowing from his/her mouth. Then to really insult your intelligence as to
listening, another person comes on the TV or radio and tells you what the
politician MEANT when he said what you thought you heard!
This world has become so crazy! Wouldn’t it be nice if we could journey back
to that relaxing moment when we found ourselves alone in our favorite chair
with the silence so deafening that we could listen to our own heart beating? That would be a blissful time to let the
thundering uproar of the world around us just pass by as if it were unnoticed
by the silence, we had wrapped around ourselves. However, we would always be brought back to
reality, because we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"The most important of the spoken word,
Is the one that is not heard!"
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