As a society we are very uncomfortable with silence. We are addicted to noise and distraction. Distraction from what? Oh, I dont know. What happens in your mind when you shut off all the distraction? You know, the electronic screens, the music, the entertainment, the telephones, the artificial lighting, and all the other gadgets that have taken the place of the real you? Why...we begin to feel lonely...being all alone with our own minds...with our thoughts. The mind becomes a very big and noisy place. We find that we are full of worry and anxiety. We fool ourselves into thinking were bored when in fact this couldnt be further from the truth. We are scared...and fear is never boring! So once again we look to turn something on, anything, to mute the noise within us...to distract us from it again. Anything...to avoid the uncomfortable silence. We make up excuses...communicating, staying in touch, convenience, entertainment, multi-tasking, and so on. In this way we become dead in our spirit. We begin a slow spiritual death, disconnected from our human-ness. We become slaves to our distractions and rather than serving us we find ourselves in spiritual bondage to them. Thats a hard way to live! youtube/watch?v=HXIHT7CKY2s
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:23:52 +0000
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