What is silence ? Silence is attempting to be like the once great Helen Keller . Silence is being entirely absent of sound or noise, absolute stillness. Silence is bliss, but if I had stay silent the rest of my life, I think the silence would win. Silence is telling people to be quite in the library when I’m trying to get papers done, if I had a dollar for every time I told a person to talk quietly, I’d have enough to pay off my tuition. Amen . Silence is when you get before the Lord, and get on your knees and you pray quietly, silence is being completely absent of sound. Silence is when your sleeping peacefully. Silence is being in awe of what God does.
Did I like being silent? As a person that constantly talks I would need to be honest
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I felt like if I said something to other people who were practicing being silent with me, I would be ignored, being alone in the room not hearing or being able to say anything was a little awkward, but it was just me and the Lord, when everyone was quiet, I was saying in my heart to the Lord “ I love you” Thank you for being my savior, comforter, redeemer and friend”. Silence was a great time for personal reflection, one of the things the Lord was saying was I need to have more ‘’patience” the Bible says to be swift to hear, slow to speak. Put a mental stopwatch on your conversations and keep track on how much you listen and talk. When people talk with you do they feel that their viewpoints and ideas have value? I felt when doing the silent practice God said when I speak with people I need to slow down, and think of what I’m saying and how I’m saying it. In Psalms 46:10 it says to” Be still and know that I am God” I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth” As Christians even though I didn't like being silent for an hour we should take time to reflect, and exalt God. one of the great things about God is, we had a time limit, but He does not. Being …show more content…
Simply put, solitude is getting by yourself before the Lord. when I was practicing solitude I shut my mouth and said “ okay God speak” and said to myself” God send me wherever you want to, and I will be your servant” He said “now is the time to listen and obey” so being the servant I am I listened to God and I went to bed, the next morning I get a call from a supporter saying “Justin ever since we’ve had your talk about the mission trip to Costa Rica, I can’t get your request for financial help out of my mind, I feel like the Lord is telling me to support you financially, so I will be writing you a check” but you see ? if I hadn't taken the step of faith to reach out to individuals and talk about my faith in God, and the faithfulness from where he has brought me from and where He will be taking me to and the obedience to talk to God about my worries for finance and the future , I don't know what would have happened. God is so good. Solitude is finding a place to to worship God by yourself. For me this would be going into the school's library, doing work study for three hours, writing this paper on silence and solitude, and listening to good wholesome Christian music and christmas music, my spirit is getting ready for the holiday season, I can already see myself being a kid again, except this time being loud on christmas morning, as a kid, “Santa” would come and put the presents under the tree, I would then wake up
To understand the blue wall of silence we must understand the definition. The blue wall of silence is defined as: An unwritten code among police officers not to report on another officer’s errors, misconducts, and or crimes when questioned about an incident of misconduct involving another colleague, during a course of an inquiry. Even though the blue wall of silence originated from the understandable need for law enforcement to be able to trust and rely on each other, it is neither morally justifiable nor is it a legal act. The wall of silence hinders the relationship with the community by degrading the trust and compromising the integrity. It is generally understood that the code of silence breeds, supports and nourishes other forms of unethical
Isolation is a state of being separation between persons or group, or a feeling being alone. There are different factors that contribute to someone feeling alone and isolated. An example of this would be when celebrities go into deep depression because they feel isolated from the whole world. They have all the material things they could ever want, but the one thing they want the most, they do not have. , which is happiness, which comes from satisfaction within oneself and being satisfied with what one has done in one's life. Feeling isolated does not necessarily mean a person is bad. Evidence in Shakespeare play Macbeth , demonstrates this quite clearly that MacBeth's isolation comes from guilt , over-ambition and greed.
.... In my opinion it is clear that we do not understand God, but despite that fact, it has not prevented us from trying on his crown through our own magical, mystical and political ways. When these questions are answered in full, in a equnamious and engaged in the nature of a commonality, our need for theology and philosophy will disappear as we will no longer need man to define the undefinable, or to shed the light of God on our minds, as the answers will be clear to all, and our human spirits will commune. Can we say now in retrospect that through singing the praises of 'God' on the battlefields, in the majestic cities built by mankind, or by those who have claimed enlightenment – that any of this bumbling in the night has brought us closer to God? Have we detected the root of our origins through our bids at piety, or have gotten too close and our wings melted away?
Romanticism seeks nature as a means for obtaining knowledge, and while Thoreau heavily spends his time in the woods and around the pond by himself, he inevitably feels a sense of solitude. Solitude is not necessarily loneliness or intentional isolation of oneself. It is merely an acknowledgment of the fact that he or she is alone. Thoreau has his own thoughts about solitude in which he writes:
However, this leads him into Solitude. Thoreau uses the word “Solitude” because it does not discover his loneliness or isolation. “Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows” (Thoreau 914). The large amount of the universe put the space between the men in perspective and connects that to the relationship with nature. He sees solitude as being peaceful. Thoreau says that society is commonly too cheap (914). Therefore, he feels that people will take the easy way throughout life. Thoreau criticizes society for the way it prevents people from enjoying solitude. For example, Thoreau feels closer to God, to nature, and he learns the best thing in life is to simplify. Although Thoreau was isolated for two years, he still had the best of both worlds. Occasionally, Thoreau had visitors to actually come by while he was not there; they normally leave cards, walnut leaf or chip
Usually, our first response is to be speechless (p.s. Christians will remember the reactions of Moses with the burning bush, Mary(mother of Jesus) when visited by the Angel). We realize here that religious speechlessness is quite different from lacking courage to speak in public or when faced with an attacker, etc. Religious silence is more geared inwardly. However, Pieper says “Both noise and total silence destroys all possibility of mutual understanding, because they destroy both speaking and hearing” (Pieper, 55). Pieper may be right in these words because when we deal with people, sometimes, being quiet bars effective communication. But then again, silence speaks volumes. To me, silence brings peace of
When you’re silent, other people feel uncomfortable. They often try to fill the silence, so they reveal more about themselves and what they like to do. It’s actually a tactic that law enforcement uses to get people to confess. Quiet people listen to all the problems around them and can come up with the best solution to the problems. Problem solvers are very important or else we would just have problem, after problem, and it would never get anything done.
The word peace is mentioned over ninety time is the New Testament and in other passages the quest for peace is address without actually using the term. In the New Testament Jesus’ life is the perfect model for living in peace. To have a close relationship with Jesus and his teachings will enable the adherent to experience this peace. For Christians achieving inner peace is following the example and teachings of Jesus. Groups within Christianity will have methods to follow Jesus’ example. Most normally include the use of prayer, the reading of scripture, participation in the wider community, service to others and Sunday worship. Maintaining a steady balance between service and prayer is pivotal for Christians in finding inner peace. Service ...
...distractions. Taking time to observe and analyze the silence can bring something to the surface that could never be confronted in any other way. We need to embrace silence presented throughout life, for we will come out with more definitive, powerful voices.
Sex is an important yet seemingly impolite subject in today’s society, and despite its implicit awkwardness, sex—and all of its taboos—needs to be discussed. The fact that we are so squeamish about discussing sex is ironic, since sex is a commonplace occurrence that nearly everyone, worldwide, will experience during their lifetime. Our society’s silence about sex creates a number of discrepancies in what is deemed societally and morally appropriate. One of the most important issues regarding sex is what makes it ethically permissible. Is consent enough or is there something more needed? Some philosophers argue that consent is substantial for considering if sex is moral; others disagree and claim that consent is the tip of the iceberg considering the morality of sex. I agree with the ladder; I believe that consent is important, but there needs to be equality in what each person receives from the sexual act itself, whether this be in the
In life people are be alone by choice, no matter if it was flat out what the wanted or alone due to some kind of forced circumstance that grew out of a previous choice they made, but when it comes down to it loneliness is never truly desired. In the short stories A Painful Case and Eveline we see examples of each type of loneliness. In A Painful Case Mr. Duffy for the most part of his life chooses to be alone. In Eveline, Eveline seems to be lonely because she’s unable to leave her duties to her family. In both stories the main characters display their desire to have someone near but when they’re finally given the chance it’s inevitably taken away from them, and then they’re driven back into the entrapment of loneliness.
Everyone has times when they are alone for situational reasons, or because they have chosen to be alone. Being alone can be experienced as positive, pleasurable, and emotionally refreshing if it is under the individual's control. Being alone and lonely, and even
Solitude. Examples are found of this idea throughout the one-hundred-year life of Macondo and the Buendia family. It is both an emotional and physical solitude. It is shown geographically, romantically, and individually. It always seems to be the intent of the characters to remain alone, but they have no control over it. To be alone, and forgotten, is their destiny.
In today’s society, Technology is the main player in the way we communicate. Cell phones and social media made the communication easier for people to contact each other. It extends time less to connect between long distance friends. Also, it helps people to spread and enlarge circle of friendships around the world. However, people are losing the way of face-to-face conversation. Sherry Turkle is an expert on culture and therapy, mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics argued in her article “the flight from conversation” how using technology can affect our behavior in conversation.
Instead, let the Holy Spirit fill and control you. Then you will sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, making music to the Lord in your hearts. And you will always give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Eph 5:18-19