Talk is silver, silence is gold

Talk is silver, silence is gold..i like this phrase..well, silence is the best policy..why?ok,let's move on..

It is interesting to note how Silent and Listen have same letters but are arranged differently.I've found it in a blog that i've just read..quite nice though

We humans have a tendency to talk more and listen less..why is that? much of it is because we have forgotten the art of waiting and allowing ourselves to grow silent within. But not for a tree..

when we are silent and waiting, something beautiful inside us keeps on growing and it is this stillness and silence that gives birth to creativity. one more thing, the more we keep silent, the less heart that can be hurt.

There are times when silence becomes the most potential way of communication and is more effective than words. We all have at least one memory when we have faced that eloquent silence of our elders such as parents or teachers when we have felt a cold fear at the bristling silence of their fury. When their silence had scared us more than angry words. When just one quiet look had had us behaving better than a harsh reprimand or scolding.

Lovers all over the world are said to communicate with silence. Understand each other’s silence. The famous telepathy between two people who have strong feelings for each other happens in a compelling silence.

In a business world the salesmen are taught the art of persuasive silence. After he has urged the potential client to buy some product and the customer is contemplating quietly over what the salesman has described, the well trained salesman remains absolutely silent during this important hiatus. Often he gains his sale by using this important tool.

Undeniably, silence needs a special kind of power and authority of mind and saying it with silence needs a certain ‘command of language’. To say nothing is often more difficult than expressing the anger, love and betrayal with words.

As these beautiful lyrics of the song ‘Sounds of silence’ by Simon and Garfunkel say:

“People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Hear my words that I might teach you;
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence.”