Silence, few things are as embarrassing to the individual as silence; there are few people who manage to remain silent and not be intimidated by that apparent absence of noise. But what causes this fear?
Certainly not the fear that the world no longer exists, because, even though there is an apparent silence around, the awareness of each individual perceives the existence of the rest of the world.
It is not the silence that accompanies the idea of death, it is the silence that surrounds the attention of the living and embodied man. Deep down, this scary silence is the fear of having to fill the silence with something of oneself. Rodolfo
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Oh yes, silence is scary because it must be filled; it is something that becomes an irrepressible need; think of all of you when you are immersed in that apparent silence that sometimes surrounds you: turn on the television, or talk, or listen to music, without ever once being able to take that silence as a supreme gift that offers you the best conditions for observing yourself with only a background of sensory perception, so that your thoughts are cleaner, more precise, more detectable, and you can actually observe yourself in the silence.
Here, here's what's scary; it's not the silence, it's the fact that silence calls you to self-observation; it is the fact that your silence, if you are attentive, can be filled by what are your inner drives, your needs, the conception or perception of the mistakes you have made…
Remembering that your life is meant to make you understood, be aware that the moments of silence, which you inevitably and fortunately manage to face, lead with sé those seeds of understanding that, otherwise, distracted by everyday noise, you would hardly be able to perceive.
Instead of feeling in awe of silence, try to learn to use it because it is a tool and it is a magnificent gift that existence sometimes, even if rarely, manages to grant you. Scifo
From the cycle Nuances of Feeling 2002-2007
Moments of silence are blessed and not so much because they lead us to observe ourselves, but because they get us used to being with ourselves.
Blessed silence.
Observe yourself but also go beyond yourself.
Silence also of oneself, to make room for something else; to hear the breath of life.
I don't know how to distinguish if and to what extent this type of listening to life can take place in the absence of the self.
As far as I'm concerned, I know that it's often about being in the presence of a deeper, less noisy self because it's less busy with thoughts, emotions, gestures.
Silence is the necessary dimension to rebalance. Too bad it's avoided by many.
As already mentioned by the other commentators, silence as a practice of "know yourself" leads beyond oneself into the irrelevance of oneself, beyond the logic of becoming and knowing: one arrives at Being.