[Marsha]
> Since you've ruled out silence, please define what
> you mean by quiet,
> the definition you expected from me.
SA: I didn't expect silence to be your
definition of quiet. By quiet, I mean quiet. For
instance, 'on those quiet days I could hear the tap
water dripping', or 'while all was quiet they raided
the camp', or 'in the quiet of the night the cougar
ambushed and killed the deer', or 'while it was quiet
I heard the icicles fall', or 'while I was being quiet
a deer walked right passed me and a cardinal sung a
song'. This quiet does necessitate that I'm able to
notice these 'things' and I am to be quiet both mind
and mouth to hear and come close to these 'things'.
I'm talking about ordinary quiet that is not just
sensed, but experienced in the mind. Ordinary quiet
where I may rest from noise or hear the Niagara Falls.
I don't know. What other quiet is there?
By silence, I thought you meant 'trying to rid
all noise' or 'emphasizing the silence and not
noticing anything else but silence'. Silence is the
absence of music or anything for that matter. For
example, the field was silent today, meaning, no deer,
birds, not even the wind stirred the leaves. In the
quiet field, the deer played, the birds sang, and the
wind blew by occasionally. In this quiet, all can be
heard and experienced, as I perceive it. In this
quiet, the cars roared by and then they left to come
back again tomorrow. Quiet is flexible I admit. For
instance, to a city person town life is quiet, but to
a farmer or somebody who lives in the woods (this is
how we perceived this as I grew up in woods and farm
land), a small town is not very quiet, but very busy,
noisy, and active (a city is suffocating). I see
quiet similar to air. It allows 'anything' to pass
through it, be alive in it, and sound-off in it.
Quiet is more a ground for much else, than the
expression.
What did you think I meant by quiet?
SA
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