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Improving the world by staying silent

Sometimes, as Paul Portesi puts it, you have to get small.

With attention the signal to rule them all, everyone has something to say.

It’s too much talk. Too many opinions. Too many thoughts and feelings. It’s time we shut up. And not just to listen, either. It’s time to remain silent so that we can let possibility have a chance. To have action speak louder than words. To refrain from letting our words define us — or define how we see others.

In this moment when news and social media and politics and opinions are all we can think about, perhaps we should embrace quiet, instead. Because it’s in the silence that we are open and undefined. Be quiet and let the truth unfold. Let it emerge.

Maybe we can make the world a better place when we stop trying to define it — and everyone with words.

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