Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
Interpretation
Taking time for silence is essential for mental clarity.
In this quote, Joan Baez emphasizes the importance of quiet and reflection in a world that is often overwhelming with noise and distractions. She suggests that without moments of silence, we risk losing our mental equilibrium sooner than anticipated, highlighting the necessity for introspection even amidst the chaos of modern life.
In practice
During a corporate wellness seminar to promote mindfulness and stress relief.
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
To sing is to love and affirm, _x000D_ to fly and to soar, _x000D_ to coast into the hearts of the people _x000D_ who listen _x000D_ to tell them that life is to live, _x000D_ that love is there, _x000D_ that nothing is a promise, _x000D_ but that beauty exists, _x000D_ and must be hunted for and found.
The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
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