The words has touched our hearts silently . Enjoyed reading .it Namita.
On 8/17/09, Subramani L <lsubram...@deccanherald.co.in> wrote: > I thought it was a wonderful idea -to touch and feel the snow or just > listen to the snow crackle and understanding its presence in silence. > Beautiful and very poetic. I think the blind man analogy is basically > for effect. > > Subramani > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in > [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Kotian, H P > Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:35 AM > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in > Subject: [AI] How could a blind man watch the snow? > > Hello all > > I am allowing this posting for members to reflect on the mindset / > enquiry; prevailing about prevalent notions on visual disability. > Harish Kotian > Moderator > > > hi > > not sure whether this is an OT. Thought this might interest some of AI > members. If you share this view please post it. > regards > rohith > > Saying it with silence > > There was this very beautiful line that I read in Orhan Pamuk's novel, > 'My Name Is Red'. He wrote about a blind man watching the snowfall and > smiling to himself. That line stayed with me for a long, long time. > How could a blind man watch the snow? > > I pondered. I know that when the sight is taken away, the other senses > become sharper. The blind man must have felt the cold air around him > with the tiny snowflakes brushing his cheek; he must have caught a > puffy, wet ball in his hand and had felt it melt in his palms. But did > he hear the snow falling? > > Somehow I believe that he actually listened to the snowfall, more than > he felt it. He must have listened to the silence of the falling snow. > He listened, because he was silent inside, in his own wonderful and > special way. > > Often silence makes people uncomfortable, accustomed as they are to the > noise and commotion of the world, but silence is all about coming home > to ourselves. > > When we sit in silence we relax and slip into an exquisite nothingness. > We look within and drop our opinionated mind and learn to feel > everything around us more deeply. > > When the incessant chatter of the mind stops and we let the quietness > around submerge us, something sacred is born within. Nietzsche said that > our greatest experiences are our quietest moments. > > Needless to say, it is only in silence that we are capable of listening. > Like that blind man watching the snowfall and smiling to himself, we > learn to listen more when we are silent. > > Silence is the basic ingredient for entering into our intuitive mind and > to resist the cacophony of meaningless noises outside. > > It is interesting to note how Silent and Listen have same letters but > are arranged differently. > > We humans have a tendency to talk more and listen less; much of it is > because we have forgotten the art of waiting and allowing ourselves to > grow silent within. > > Nature has no trouble in remembering this art. Nature thrives on > silence. We never hear the footsteps of moon when it appears on the sky. > We don't hear a loud bang when the sun comes out and the stars burst > open in the sky. Their arrival is always wrapped in a glorious silence. > Look how the tree knows it! It remains bare, beautiful and still; > waiting for the new leaves, knowing that the old has gone and the new > will soon be coming. The tree waits in silence. > > Just like tree, when we are silent and waiting, something beautiful > inside us keeps on growing and it is this stillness and silence that > gives birth to creativity. > > Often it happens that when we wait in silence, life rushes back to fill > those crevices in our souls. There are times when silence becomes the > most potent way of communication and is more effective than words. > We all have at least one memory when we have faced that eloquent silence > of our elders such as parents or teachers when we have felt a cold fear > at the bristling silence of their fury. When their silence had scared us > more than angry words. When just one quiet look had had us behaving > better than a harsh reprimand or scolding. > > Lovers all over the world are said to communicate with silence. > Understand each other's silence. The famous telepathy between two people > who have strong feelings for each other happens in a compelling silence. > > In a business world the salesmen are taught the art of persuasive > silence. After he has urged the potential client to buy some product and > the customer is contemplating quietly over what the salesman has > described, the well trained salesman remains absolutely silent during > this important hiatus. Often he gains his sale by using this important > tool. > > Undeniably, silence needs a special kind of power and authority of mind > and saying it with silence needs a certain 'command of language'. > To say nothing is often more difficult than expressing the anger, love > and betrayal with words. > > However, being silent with a natural and calm stillness within is like a > spiritual reflex. Analyze it too much or think too much about it and it > degenerates itself into something superficial and edgy. If we become > self-conscious about silence then we begin to work against it. > We rush to fill it with inane talks and nervous gestures, and the > silence loses its value. > > But we can certainly develop this powerful way of communicating by > practicing a calm mind. By realizing that between stimulus and response, > there is a space and in that space is our power to choose our response > because in our response lies our growth and our freedom. > That "space" is silence. > > The French mathematician Blaise Pascal said "All man's miseries derive > from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone." > > As these beautiful lyrics of the song 'Sounds of silence' by Simon and > Garfunkel say: > > "People talking without speaking, > People hearing without listening, > People writing songs that voices never share And no one dared Disturb > the sound of silence. > > Hear my words that I might teach you; > Take my arms that I might reach you. > But my words like silent raindrops fell, And echoed In the wells of > silence." > > Each time when I feel that I just cannot take another step forward in > life, I seek refuge in silence. 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