yes, mark. i've an idea. you could stay silent in all ways, especially the "heard" words coming from your computer keyboard. sounds like a great plan. any ideas?
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> From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2005/11/25 Fri PM 09:02:27 EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Other French joke
>
> Here's an interesting question, interesting to me, at least. A lot of my
> friends go on retreats to Catholic or Buddhist venues, where they're silent
> among others being silent. I live and work by myself and in fact spend many
> days saying very little. My favorite travel is solitary walking and
> camping. Obviously a lot of people for a lot of millenia have referred
> being silent in a crowd. Any ideas?
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 07:23 PM 11/25/2005, you wrote:
> > > For several years I've periodically expressed an interest in spending a
> > > long weekend with the Jesuits (any Order will actually do) and observing
> > > silence for the allotted time.
> >
> > > ken
> > >
> >
> >I spent over a decade with the Jesuits. The quietest time of the day (for
> >them
> >individually) was when they were saying their Office, walking slowly up and
> >down somewhere on schoolgrounds, a little black book in their hands.
> >
> >The quietest time of my years with them was a retreat for the Sodality of Our
> >Lady in which I was a saintly leader. I would have been in my early teens. We
> >hired the beachhouse of the IBVM nuns at a place called Waterman's Bay and
> >had
> >a complete silent retreat for a week. (That area is now a beachside suburb
> >and
> >the nuns would have done very-nicely-thank-you out of the sale of their old
> >ramshackle beachside house.) The silent days were magical. I remember them to
> >this day some forty years later. I wish for a retreat of my own, and get up
> >early each morning to have a silent moment with myself and my little black
> >meditation book ... Otherwise, I'm a gibbering fool who can't keep his mouth
> >shut in company.
> >
> >Andrew
>
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