Silence and the stillness beyond silence and the emptiness that permits silence (by emptying ourselves of thoughts, fear, anger, all emotions, plans, all noise, are the essential elements in seeing, hearing, understanding, realization, enlightenment, awakening, knowing, doing, being, peacefully abiding here, now.
Living a noise-free life–with noise understood to be diversion, distraction, disturbance of any kind on all levels–is foundational to being fully alive to/in the moment here, now, available for what is called for, where, when and how it is called for in each situation as it arises all our life long. And that is what life is all about, no? Living, as life needs to be lived here, now? Who could do more than that?
Jim Dollar's Published Works 