Taizé Prayer At the Taizé prayer, the area with the altar and candles was inviting. First the silence for about 10 minutes, then the music played, followed by long pauses for praying and reading the scriptures together. The prayer around the Jesus cross in the center was about to begin when a person placed the cross on the ground and next to the cross a pillow for people to kneel and express their burdens. After about ten minutes, the prayer around the cross continued, but this time the cross was
A philosopher once visited Buddha and asked him: "Without words, without the wordless, will you tell me the truth?" Buddha kept silence. After a while the philosopher rose gently, made a solemn bow and thanked Buddha saying: "With your loving kindness, I have cleared away all my delusions and entered the true path." When the philosopher had left, Ananda, a senior disciple of Buddha, enquired: "O, blessed one, what hath this philosopher attained?" Buddha replied: "A good horse runs even at the
Being asked to describe silence is like being asked to describe color: It seems like such a simplistic idea on the surface, but when analyzed seems to be one of the most complex of all. Silence is something most people tend to avoid. It can be awkward, uninviting, and, in many cases, frightening. To be exposed to true silence, free of any connectivity and distraction, is rare in today’s society. With the rush of technological innovation at an all time high, we tend to forget what it is like to be
At the Taizé prayer, the place with the altar and candles was inviting; first the silence for about 10 minutes, then the music played, followed by long pauses for praying and reading the scriptures together. The prayer around the Jesus cross statue in the center was about to begin when a person placed the cross on the ground and next to the cross a pillow for people to kneel and express their burdens. After about ten minutes, the prayer around the cross continued, but this time the cross statue was
Silence is better than unmeaning words by Pythagoras has very deep meaning. Silence is defined as when there is an absence of sound, but there is more to it. During silence a lot of the times people have no idea about what to say or what would be appropriate thing to do. In a short story “A primer for Punctuation of Heart disease” by Jonathan Safran Foer, story revolves around a boy named Jonathan whose family has lack of communication which has caused distance in familial relationships. The story
beside them. Shoulders shake as they stand in the place where their loved ones died; not a word is uttered. Silence. That’s how they choose to remember 2,296 souls (Plumer, 2013). Complete and utter silence. The void that is too often filled, the thing that is too often forgotten. Today’s society has been trained to avoid silence. In a world where our senses are constantly assaulted by sound, silence has become awkward, uncomfortable, and sometimes, even downright terrifying. We fill our world with sound
literary symbol is used to unite an image and an idea to evoke thought. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, night, fire, and silence are used as symbols to describe the darkness of his history. In this article i intend to analyse how night is used to show the darkness of humanity in this time period throughout the novel, how fire represented that they were in hell, and how silence is used to show the loss of faith and fear. The biggest symbol used in the novel is night it's even used as the title to
I did not grow up adhering to any religious faith. Both of my parents grew up in religious families, but did not hold onto this faith into adulthood or pass any ideologies down to my siblings or I. For this reason I do not regularly experience religion of any kind, so I wanted my cultural encounter to be of a religious culture in order to encounter something completely new. I chose to attend Quaker Meeting for Worship because the Quaker religion is very prevalent in Pennsylvania especially around
Final Self-Evaluation Although my journey within the Clinical Mental Health program at the University of Scranton has come to an end, however, my journey to become a licensed professional counselor is still underway. As I tie up loose ends by handing in time sheets and remaining assignments, I find myself in a reflective peaceful space. As I look back over the years that I have spent within the program perfecting my craft, I can’t help but think that I am truly blessed. It is one thing to choose
Silence is the events that could have had an impact on the good of the future but never happened. In other words, the things that should have been done but weren’t. In Night, silence is demonstrated by using this quote. “I pinched my face. Was I still alive? Was I awake? I could not believe it. How could it be possible for them to burn people, children, and for the world to keep silent?” This quote displays the theme of silence because it states that Elie was in