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Episode 251 - Sacred Silence · Positively 365: Inspire, Motivate, Support

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  you for your help. Now enjoy this episode. Welcome to Positively three hundred
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  and sixty five, a podcast by Joe Wattis. We wish to entertain,
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  instruct and motivate. If nothing else, hopefully we can entertain and inspire you
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  to the more positive life three hundred and sixty five days a year. Do
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  hope you enjoyed this message. The sarcastic teacher looked around the classroom and said,
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  if there are any idiots in this room, will a please stand up?
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  After a long silence, one freshman rose to his feet. Now,
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  then, mister, why do you consider yourself an idiot? Inquired the teacher
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  with a sneer well actually said the student. I don't, but I hate
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  to see you standing up there all by yourself. Have you ever stopped to
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  consider what a gift silence is to us? Just as words would be unintelligible
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  without the spaces between them, so too music would not sound beautiful without the
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  spaces between the notes. Silence what a gift. We will talk about this
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  in this week's episode of Positively three sixty five, but first we have our
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  trivia question of the day. Are you ready for it? Here? It
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  is what country touches the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Bay of
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  Bengal. We will have the answer when we come back. Do you enjoy
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  my undying affection and have the satisfaction of knowing that you are doing something to
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  spread more positivity in today's negative world. Thank you for listening, and thank
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  you for your support financially and otherwise. Do you know the answer to this
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  week's trivia question? The question was what country touches the Indian Ocean, the
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  Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. The answer India. Maybe some of
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  you guess that from the first body of water listed the Indian Ocean. Yes,
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  the answer is India. Now you know. In our bustling world,
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  silence stands as a rare gem amidst the clamor in the busyness of modern life.
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  External noises and the internal chatter of our minds drown out the subtleties of
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  existence. The relentless crescendo of our surroundings can deceive us into devaluing silence,
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  dismissing it as unproductive. However, within the hush lies an invaluable gift amidst
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  the constant crescendo. Silence is a sanctuary where clarity and introspection thrive. It
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  is a scarce refuge, increasingly precious in a world. Amplifying its noise,
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  embracing silence reveals its true worth. A sanctuary for mindfulness, self discovery,
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  and a respite from the relentless noise that permeates our daily lives. Silence is
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  sacred. One Lakota Indian says this about silence. We Indians know about silence.
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  We are not afraid of it. In fact, for us, silence
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  is a more powerful thing than words. Our elders were trained in the ways
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  of silence, and they handed over this knowledge to us. Observe, listen,
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  and then act. They would tell us that was the manner of living
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  with you. It is just the opposite. You learn by talking. You
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  reward the children that talk the most at school. In your parties, you
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  all try to talk at the same time. In your work, you are
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  always having meetings in which everybody interrupts everybody else and all talk five, ten
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  or one hundred times, And you call that solving a problem. When you're
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  in a room and there is silence, you get nervous. You must fill
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  the space with sounds, so you talk com compulsorily, even before you know
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  what you are going to say. White people love to say. They don't
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  even allow the other person to finish a sentence. They always interrupt. For
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  Us Indians, this looks like bad matters and even stupidity. If you start
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  talking, I'm not going to interrupt you. I will listen. Maybe i'll
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  stop listening if I don't like what you're saying, but I won't interrupt you.
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  People should regard their words as seeds. They should sow them, and
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  they should then allow them to grow in silence. Our elders taught us that
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  the earth is always talking to us, but we should keep silence in order
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  to hear her. But there are many voices besides ours, many voices.
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  today and every day, three hundred and sixty five days a year. Don't
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  stop, don't stop, don't stop. Preceding has been a canine wata's production,
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