Laura Hope-Gill is the Executive Director of The Asheville Wordfest Media Outreach Project. In the fall 2008 Parabola, she had an article called “Digital Silence.” Much of the article was about her slow process of going deaf—without self-pity or regret.
“My sign language teacher, Shiner, said it this way: ‘You’re not going deaf. You’re acquiring silence.’ By the time I heard her say that, I understood. Learning sign language has been the beautiful thing. The cup remains empty but language still fills it. Only language. No words.”
Acquiring silence. I think sometimes if we could put it in Campbell’s Soup cans, silence would fly off the shelves. We are desperate for it much of the time.
I love the distinction Hope-Gill makes about having language, but no words. Think of the times you’ve sat in silence with someone you love—a parent, a child, a friend, a lover. Isn’t there language—even with no words?
I suggest you consider acquiring silence for a portion of your week, an hour or so. If you include someone you love, you’ll wallow in language with no words, and bask in the new and refreshing silence.
Be joy,
Susan Corso
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Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and counselor. An omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She has been an intuitive since childhood.
Susan’s blogosphere writing may be found at Seeds for Sanctuary, Ode Magazine and The Huffington Post, and Beliefnet. Her website is SusanCorso.com
One of her favorite occupations is writing spiritual fiction. She is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton. The audiobook of the first in the series, Oklahoma! Hex, came out in September 2008.
Susan is the founder of Sanctuary and ten-year author/publisher of a free e-newsletter, Seeds. As a professor at the accredited College of Divine Metaphysics, she teaches and ordains ministers.
Susan has been published in magazines, online magazines and newsletters including Business Ethics, Beliefnet.com, Ode Magazine, Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Q-Spirit, Self, and Winning Ways. She is the author of several tape series. Susan also writes for the theatre: The God Show, I Would Never, Fight or Flight, and PeaceWomen.
For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.
Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations. She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz.
Her mission in life is peace.
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