“Without God, man is torn, anxious, worried, agitated, and he cannot arrive at interior rest. True life is not in rebellion but in silent adoration. Of course, we have no answer to the problem of evil; yet our task is to make it less intolerable and to offer a remedy without pride, discreetly . . .
Media society moves from sentimental rebellion to moral rebellion, like a desperate Sisyphus figure ceaselessly climbing the mountain. It demands its rebellion, its hatred of what it idiosyncratically defines as unjust and unfair, proud of its correct opinions, which are, however, the most pretentious ideas we could ever find. Cynical and shameless, it despicably revels in its dislikes.
Modern existence is a propped-up life built entirely on noise, artificiality, and the tragic rejection of God. From revolutions to conquests, from ideologies to political battles, from the frantic quest for equality to the obsessive cult of progress, silence is impossible. What is worse: transparent societies sworn to an implacable hatred of silence, which they regard as a contemptible, backward defeat.
A man without silence is a stranger to God, exiled in a distant land that remains at the surface of the mystery of man and the world; but God is at the deepest part of man, in the silent regions of his being.”
Excerpt From: Diat, Nicolas; Sarah, Robert Cardinal. “The Power of Silence"
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