"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear" ~Rumi
There is a kind of noise that does not come from the outside world. It is not sound in the usual sense-it is the accumulation of unfinished thought.
I notice it when everything else is still. When external input fades, the internal does not become silent-it becomes legible.
I am beginning to suspect that what we call "silence" is not the absence of sound, but the presence of everything we normally ignore.
And perhaps attention is not about control, but about allowing certain patterns to become visible without immediately trying to resolve them.
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