In the hustle and bustle of humanity’s everyday business, is there still a place for silence? Is silence nothing more than the absence of noise, the quiet that can be found in nature? In this lovely meditation, Nicolas Go opens us to a more profound dimension of silence: the philosopher’s, the musician’s, the poet’s, and the wise person’s.
Envisaged thus, silence is both a trial and an experience. A trial, because making silence means first of all confronting our own passions, our turmoil… what the author, following the Greek tradition, calls our furies. A trial also because we must resist the calls of the many sirens trying to distract us from meeting our interiority. And an experience, because moving into silence means encountering the real at its greatest density, and finding there joy, love and more…
The paradox of these springtimes of silence, which are in fact upwellings of life, is that they open onto creation, rather than distancing us from action. In a way, they are the condition of fecundity for a human life.