Silence
does not mean the end of speaking. It is not the end of anything. It is the
beginning. A great man once said, it’s not so much the words you speak. But the
silence in between them that give the fire to your message. Gives the passion
to your message. Silence is best because
it allows you control. Staying in
silence for a day if one can manage it is an exercise that will test your will
tremendously but leave u with a will to communicate and converse with conviction. The will to convince is a tremendous tool We
see it all the time. Someone walks up to an individual and tries to convey to
him, spends an hour unable to get through. Then someone else walks up to him,
and in ten minutes manages to turn the person around. So is it the words, the
logic or the language?
Or maybe its
none of the above. Maybe it is the pause of the conviction that he is able to
carry in the same words that his predecessor has used and failed. That force of
conviction comes from within. An energy that is invisible, indecipherable, but
incisive, impactful, without leaving a tangible mark on both the speaker and
the listener. Sitting in the audience when great ones have spoken is something
people carry for a lifetime. It leaves an impact not just in the eardrums but
in the mid. It changes the way you choose to live your life in an instant. Hearing Gandhi or Martin Luther King or Mother
Tersa, JFK or Mandela, all of them have
left an indelible mark on our history and will continue to leave their mark for
eons to come. Their words continue to echo and reverberate in far distant lands
from whence it was spoken and there is no accounting for that resonance.
For that power. For that majesty.