Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.
Interpretation
Finding peace involves reducing external noise and stress.
The quote by Khaled Hosseini suggests that in order to achieve a sense of tranquility and clarity in life, one must learn to quiet the distractions and chaos that surround us. This 'quieting' allows individuals to better understand themselves and their needs, ultimately leading to a more fulfilling life.
In practice
During a meditation session, I reflected on the quote by Khaled Hosseini about finding quiet in life.
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
No man is so great as mankind.
Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.
We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.
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