One dog barks, and then they all bark, each dog blindly following the barking of the other dogs, and not being sure even why they are barking, they bark for no reason except to follow the other dogs and do not know why.
The true leader of the pack does not bark just because the other dogs bark. Silence is golden. If you have silence all around you, you have peace. Silence is peace. Others whisper gossip and slander, but for you the blessing is that it is all silence, and the impurity of their words do not enter into your sphere. Silence gives you a chance to think your own original thoughts without the influx of someone else's words interfering with your own words and thought patterns.
Playing your own music in a crowd of strangers, walking to the beat of your own drum. Thinking thoughts that belong to you, and you alone, not hearing confusion others create, but instead hearing the wisdom of your own words, the thoughts of your own head, blocking out unwelcome thoughts, not hearing the private conversations of others, keeping to your own rhythm even though their songs are sung, it is only your own song that you can hear and those you choose are singing your song with you. Silence is not emptiness, it is the void that exists that welcomes you to quietly fill it or to accept its none-ness.
Silence and not responding, not responding as a method to stopping a confrontation, the battle is never fought, the warriors lose their fight because no one wins, therefore there are no warriors, only peacemakers, no one fought, no one battled, no one challenged another. The battle stopped before it started. No opinions were disrespected because no opinions were voiced. Silence became the key to keeping the peace, and after the peaceful silence we are able to then lay our heads down and dream in sleep, a dream in silence becomes the sound we hear at night, and dreaming is a soundless sound.
Silence is golden, silver, and bronze--nothing else is as peaceful. Ssssssssshhhhhhhhh...the sound of the "shin" Hebrew letter representing the Shekinah form of God is the sound of silence, the soft whispering sound of peace.
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