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On Sitting With Silence Without Needing to Fill It
Silence often makes people uneasy. Not the kind of silence that follows a long day or arrives naturally at night, but the quieter kind—the one that appears when there is nothing demanding attention, nothing asking to be answered, nothing clearly productive to do. In those moments, many of us instinctively reach for sound, words, or […]
Learning to Pay Attention to What Usually Goes Unnoticed
There is a quiet kind of attention that often gets lost in daily life. Not the sharp, task-oriented attention we use to meet deadlines or respond to notifications, but a softer kind—the kind that notices how light changes in a room, or how a thought arrives and leaves without asking permission. This kind of attention […]