The Power of Silence in a culture of Hustle.
#hustle #silence #culture. At times it seems nearly everything is enveloped in a culture of hustle, hype, spin, self promotion, marketing, and at worst exaggeration and deception. The noise is deafening! Our cultural gurus are often hustlers of the first magnitude, spin artists of the one liner. Nearly every spiritual tradition has portrayed happiness or serenity as the right blend of silence and right action. Today we seem off our axis prone to fear and chaos. Christianity, Zen Buddhism, Judaism, Islam have all stressed the importance of a deep inner silence, as one 18th century French monk described," a silence of the imagination."
What would our life and work look like if we took a silence holiday, no spin, no prognostication, just silence and listening. For leaders this ancient ascetical practice of withdrawal from the noise of the fray brings great clarity on what is real vs what shall pass. Let's take a silence holiday in our chaotic multi- tasking frenetic world. We may find as music artist Billy Joel that in "every heart there is a sanctuary, deep and strong". It is from this place truth and leadership emerge. Practice silence where less becomes abundance.
The Power of Silence in a Culture of Hustle
