2018-09-28.md

Silence: In the Age of Noise

Erling Kagge

Quotes

• We consider silence is fine to have on hand when you’re feeling sad. Beyond that, it’s useless.
• I got bored to the point where it was almost painful.
• All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

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• Their heads are now filled with more ambitions than questions. ★
• Questions and answers, questions and answers. Wonder is the very engine of life.
• shutting out the world in order to open up his thoughts."
• Noise is also connected to class divisions. ★

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• The quieter I became, the more I heard.
• Silence is about rediscovering, through pausing, the things that bring us joy.
• attempt to think about something other than what you are normally thinking about.
• falling in love isn’t something that merely happens, it is an act

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• well-known practice, a koan, is to sit quietly and imagine the sound of a single hand clapping.
• Creating silence is at times a minute act

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• "Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour." - William Blake
• Emily Dickinson rightly concluded, “The Brain—is wider than the Sky.”
• “To compose poetry is about listening,” - Jon Fosse
• According to Abramović, the opposite of silence is a brain at work. Thinking. If you wish to find peace, you must cease thinking.