- Sanjay Sharma
- Maastricht
- Netherlands
Ex Director, Maastricht University India Institute, Maastricht University
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Should we have "silence please" caption at public places whereas the need of the hour is to communicate more in order to understand others?
TED and many other platforms are the evidences that human being has this need to learn more/ better about what is new/ lesser known. Direct communication is the only way to get first hand (uninterpreted/ and supposedly unbiased) knowledge about a person/ event. And yet we seem to keep promoting "Silence Please" caption at public places and continue judging others/ unknowns based on unfounded assumptions and living in fear......
See talk " No Silence Please " at http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/2010/3-minute-talks-of-tedxamsterdam-delegates-finally-online/
Ed Schulte 50+
on a day when global consciousness feels very heave and stale ....I feel like pointing to silence and suggest it can and does convey a great deal of "knowledge" and is a VERY Direct means of communication.
Current events prompted and fellow "silence Lover" to share this
by Father Thomas Keating
"Another way of representing this presence is silence and the idea that everything emerges from silence, including ourselves, and returns to it. This silence of God is not just sheer emptiness, but is an emptiness that is on the verge of becoming everything. Perhaps more exactly is everything. But at the same time, is nothing, in the sense that it’s every possibility waiting to be realized ...."
Lindsay Newland Bowker 50+
Sanjay Sharma