Max
Picard
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[In
this profoundly illuminating book, first published in 1948, renowned Swiss
philosopher Max Picard expresses the nature and meaning of silence in poetic,
lyrical, and honest language that helps call forth the silence that lies as the
mostly unrecognized source of our own being. Without fanfare, the book “takes
us back to the beginning of things.”
Demonstrating
that silence can indeed be spoken about in a way that does not denude it of its
power to transform and awaken, Picard takes us on a journey into ourselves,
covering such topics (all chapter titles) as the nature of silence, the silence
in speech, the ego and silence, knowledge and silence, love and silence, time
and silence, the noise of words, and many more.
Even
a few words from this book can help us understand, in an entirely new way, some
of the many problems that face us in today’s noise-filled world, where communication
consists mainly of sound bites designed to promote some personal, social,
political, or spiritual viewpoint, agenda, or action. So, instead of attempting
to “review” this book, I shall let you hear from Picard himself, offering some
quotations that have impacted my own life].
“In
every moment of time, man through silence can be with the origins of all
things.” (p. 22)
“Silence
contains everything within itself. It is not waiting for anything; it is always
wholly present in itself and it completely fills out the space in which it
appears.” (p. 18)
“Where
silence is, man is observed by silence. Silence looks at man more than man
looks at silence.” (p. 17)
“Not
until one man speaks to another, does he learn that speech no longer belongs to
silence but to man. He learns it through the Thou of the other person, for
through the Thou the word first belongs to man and no longer to silence. When
two people are conversing with one another, however, a third is always present:
Silence is listening. That is what gives breadth to a conversation: when the
words are not moving merely within the narrow space occupied by the two
speakers, but come from afar, from the place where silence is listening. That
gives the words a new fullness. But not only that: the words are spoken as it
were from the silence, from that third person, and the listener receives more
than the speaker alone is able to give. Silence is the third speaker in such a conversation.
At the end of the Platonic dialogues it is always as though silence itself were
speaking. The persons who were speaking seem to have become listeners to
silence.” (p. 25)
“Today
words no longer arise out of silence, through a creative act of the spirit
which gives meaning to language and to the silence, but from other words, from
the noise of other words. Neither do they return to the silence but into the
noise of other words, to become immersed therein.” (p. 168)
“When
the substance of silence is present in a man, all his qualities are centered in
it; they are all connected primarily with the silence and only secondarily with
each other. Therefore it is not so easy for the defect of one quality to infect
all the others, since it is kept in its place by the silence. But if there is
no silence, a man can be totally infected by a single defect so that he ceases
to be a man …” (p. 70)
“There
is an immeasurability in happiness that only feels at home in the breadth of
silence. Happiness and silence belong together just as do profit and noise.” (p.
71)
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