Noise wearies and sickens but reassures us. We can fall into a dull, insistent uneasiness. The agitation becomes a tranquilizer, a sedative, forming a sort of incoherent dream world. Noise gives us security, like a drug on which we are dependent. But it is a dangerous, deceptive, diabolic lie. Noise distracts us from noticing.
(Adapted from Cardinal Robert Sarah’s The Power of Silence for my forthcoming book Noticing.)
~Will Keiper
The Noticing Guide
www.willkeiper.com
