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Radio Headspace

How the Beauty of Silence Transformed My Perspective with Andy Puddicombe

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

While words are beneficial and necessary, today's world is filled with endless chatter. Learn to be selective with your words and discover the value of silence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Let's Space Studio. space studio. Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Head Space and to Tuesday morning.

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A long time ago, I remember standing next to my teacher and looking at a sign on the wall.

0:56.3

He said, if you can't improve on silence, then don't say anything at all.

1:00.9

Now that's a pretty high bar, think for most of us in life and it's

1:06.2

difficult from a monastic context it made a lot of sense especially as well

1:12.3

let's face it there wasn't a lot of conversation in the

1:14.4

monastery anyway. I think out in the world it's a little more challenging. There's a part of that

1:19.3

that has stuck with me ever since. And I sometimes worry just putting more information, more words into the world.

1:26.4

Because it's hard to improve on silence. Silence is such a beautiful thing. We might find it

1:32.1

unnerving at times, we might find it a little alien at times,

1:36.1

but if we take the time to be quiet and to allow thoughts to settle,

1:40.8

then it can become a really, as I say, a really sort of beautiful thing.

1:47.0

And I wonder if words have become perhaps a little less powerful over time.

1:52.0

I don't know about you. I find the relentless news

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