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The Voice In Silence

Being Quiet in a Loud World

By Keane Neal-RiquierPublished 5 years ago 4 min read
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In a world full of people who love to talk, we have forgotten a voice that speaks louder than any other. The voice of silence is one of the most profound speakers of all time. It can say so much without ever raising a decibel of sound.

Surviving in the World Tip #9—Listening to the Voice of Silence

All too often, we are irked by being surrounded by silence. It seems that we have been so attuned to needing an ongoing conversation to fill the space. With that, we don’t allow the voice of silence to ever tell her story.

Silence can speak so profoundly that it may end up changing your life. We get caught up in the light and chaos of the world, that we forget that we can find happiness in the absence of it all.

Finding silence in the heart is one of the essential keys to consistent happiness. It is then that everything in life becomes clear and troubles begin to subside.

Finding silence, and allowing it to work in the way it needs, takes a particular type of patience and prowess. This world likes to keep the conversation going. What we fail to realize is that we do this so we don’t have to hear the truths that silence has to speak. Truths that keep us from achieving the happiness we so desperately desire.

When Shared with Others, It’s Life’s Narrator

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When we are silent in the presence of others, we often come into the most extraordinary moments of our lives. The sense of hearing is perhaps the easiest to appease, as speaking a word is one of the most effortless actions. If there is no conversation to be had, that means you have to indulge in your other senses.

You have to go outside and feel the wind of a warm spring’s day.

You have to adventure to the mountain top to see for miles.

You have to make a dashing dish to make you taste buds swirl.

You have to pick the prettiest flower to get a fresh smell you’ll never forget.

If you turn off your need for the sound of conversation, you take notice to everything else that is around you. In the right moment, you can let the lack of your voice allow your environment to speak up and start telling a story that is more beautiful than anything you could ever hold.

To dance in the air of midnight takes only the voice of the song serenading the love.

To kiss the most passionate kiss the world has ever seen will never be found in the presence of a conversation.

To look into someone’s eyes, then it’ll only become pure if you let your voice subside.

Though conversation can be great, we have to remember that silence can be even better. When we stop and take in the world as it is, we can create some of the most beautiful memories that we’ve ever had, and create some of the most artistic pictures of memories eye.

When Alone, It Talks About You and Everyone Else

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When you find the beauty of silence, you begin to amplify everything else around you. You begin to feel the love of everyone in your life in a sense; you feel a connection towards everyone you’ve ever known. Though you may not be truly aware of their physical being, you know that they are out there somewhere living and breathing.

If you let it, a feeling of a warming love sustains you, and the world seems timeless and limitless. You are everywhere, yet nowhere at the same time.

You become apart of a story that has been told since the beginning of existence. A story in which everything you’ve ever learned about is there. However, the evils and pains are nonexistent.

Without the words, you can hear about all of the happiest moments that have ever been and ever will be.

The pains of your past are a weight that can pull you down mentally and physically. Your mood becomes sour, and your shoulders heavy.

The voice of silence, however, gives you a new bit in which you can feel your pains. It reminds you that pain is the absence of happiness; it tells you that to be sad, you must have lost something of beautiful power.

Instead of looking back and remembering everything you lost, you begin to feel everything you had. The problems in your past become a weightless matter that lifts you off your begging knees.

As you become a presence that floats above anything that could ever hurt you, it transports you in another dimension of complete and absolute peace.

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Keane Neal-Riquier

Writing and storytelling have been a passion of mine ever since I was young. I look to dig deep into what it means to be human, and this is what you will find at the very core of my writing.

Website: atyourservicefreelancing.com

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