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Here's a thought, a quote, and a resource I wanted to share with you this Thursday.
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I heard a friend talk about going for a walk every day without his phone. I shuddered. When I go for a walk or drive, and when I’m doing chores, I’m generally listening to a podcast or an audiobook.
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While driving this week, I heard a writer warn against what C.S. Lewis called the Kingdom of Noise. Living without silence and time to think robs our ability to think, be creative, and rob depth.
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I immediately turned off the audiobook and enjoyed the next hour in silence in my car. It was wonderful.
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Living outside of the kingdom of noise has become harder since the era of the smartphone. I’m working on the habit of cultivating more alone time without headphones.
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It’s a good thing to dissent from the kingdom of noise.
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“Music and silence—how I detest them both! … All has been occupied by Noise—Noise, the grand dynamism, the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless, and virile … We will make the whole universe a noise in the end.”
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(Screwtape, a senior demon writing to an underling in C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters)
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