Sign-In
Cart
Heaven and Hell
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781649833679
Publisher: Harpercollins 360
Published: Aug 10 2020
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The practice of silence is one of my favourite ideals and I have written and spoken about the same whenever I could. But silence in relation to the conquest of the ego has a different focus altogether. Ego pushes people to talk too much, to talk constantly about themselves and to dominate conversations by pushing their views and opinions on others. Asking such people to observe silence is almost a kin to strangulating them! They would feel deprived, they would demand the right to be heard and insist that their voices and opinions are worth being heard.
Some of them may be right, some of the time. Rightly or wrongly, excessive egoism is associated with excessive talking- the sort of talking that does not allow others to get a word in edgewise, the sort of talking that drowns out other voices, the sort of talking that dismisses other's view with a Contemptuous Nonsense! or What rubbish! Or even without any of these insulting comments, just raising the voice and talking incessantantly.
Before we get into the merits and demerits of loud talking(I have a few friends who claim that they do not deliberately talk loudly; it is just that their voices are a little on the high-decibel side).
Also from
Sachwani, Sunil
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1967-1972 (Loa #158): When She Was Good / Portnoy's Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback