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Shared Silence
“Personal transformation isn’t always comfortable. Often it is even painful, but that’s okay. It is partly the pain of this internal voyage that changes you. As you leave your mark on your work, it leaves its mark on your consciousness, and on your heart. You leave some things behind, take some things with you, and hopefully share some things with others along the way, even if only stories. This is the way… but only if you decide to make the journey. You cannot cross the sea by merely standing on the shore and looking at it.”
~ Robert Herd
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But the value of shared silence isn’t just these rare moments that leave us speechless.
There’s a reason why people regularly gather together to meditate in silence, even though it’s so much more convenient to just sit by yourself in your own home. Simply put, there’s an alchemy to experiencing silence with others. Out of the gray of the mundane, something golden can emerge. When two or more people drop the “conceptual overlay” and enter together into deeper and finer modes of perception, there’s a unique feeling of expansion that happens.
The power of silence is magnified when it’s shared.
— By Justin Talbot Zorn and Leigh Marz
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