We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
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Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
It's important to have quiet time and isolation.
When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.
There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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