SILENCE
The importance of silence has always been underestimated despite the popular idiom, speech is silver, silence is gold . I do not know with what context and purpose that idiom came into existence, but I see multiple angles to this. My long-term belief is brain activity consumes a lot of energy. Being silent in mind can save all of that. Further, just as every organ needs rest and activity, for the ever active brain also, some silence either through meditation or casually when I have nothing to do, will help. Today I randomly came across two other people talking about silence (ever wonder if Google is listening to our thoughts too?). One was a Stanford university 25 year old girl talking about this in a video. The other is from a very well-known philosopher, late Mr. Jiddu Krishnamurthi (JK) talking of this on a completely different plane. The Easy One The girl from Stanford says, real creativity comes from silence. We are so preoccupied with our goals, and a busy life that we don’t
