David Villasenor, in his essay on “Silence,” puts it thus: “Silence among Indians is that state reached when the mind of man is an absolute vacuum to the physical world, empty of physical ‘selfness’....Civilized man feels a loneliness and even an extreme melancholia in the jungle of the mind that may make stillness a terrifying experience, but he can pass through this barrier if he will learn to understand it. Then he would discover, as the Indian did long ago, that to stand in solitude on a mountain top at sunrise or sunset, or by a waterfall in some hidden canyon of ethereal beauty, and to absorb this majesty with utter peace and awe, in which soul merges with creation, and self is forgotten, is to become one with a joy and happiness so tremendous that no mere earthly pleasure can compare....Silence is truly the language of the spirit among the Indians.”
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:41:07 +0000