Silence Hours

[Zita Lifland]

Oneof my primary goals for this vow of silence was to build trust between us. So often words can complicate situations, and silence was a clarifying solution for us. It left no room for misunderstanding, forced us to act authentically, and made us see the good intentions and love emanating from one another. It was a very positive experience.

This simple practice made me view my daily experience in a whole new way. I'm not saying that it changed my life, but it was a very interesting and cool experience. My history teacher in high school would tell us about the different types of meditation that he would engage in; he was a very spiritual guy. One of the practices that caught my attention was 24 hours of silence. This means you make no sound and you could choose whether or not to interact with other people. So many years later, I decided to try this for myself. I was going to make no verbal noise for 24 hours, and it was an awesome experience.

I started randomly and did not tell anyone I was doing this. I tend to pull a few pranks on my friends here and there, so they just took my silence as another weird thing I was doing. They didn't seem to mind. The first hour felt normal. I can stay quiet by myself for an hour without thought. It was when my friends started to talk to me when the experience became different. I started to become less aware of my existence. It was as if I was watching my life carry out like a movie. Before long, all my senses started to perk up. I was hearing things and people clearer. I was paying more attention to the world around me. I felt myself being able to recognize things that I would pass by if I was carrying out a conversation or even singing a song to myself.

Eventually something weird happened; the only way I can describe this experience was my thoughts were getting louder. The song that was stuck in my head was more prevalent since I was not verbally singing it to myself. This isn't to say that my thoughts were clogging up my other senses because they didn't. The absence of my own sound sort of made room for my other senses. I could feel myself appreciating little things more. The trees were a little greener, the sky was a little bluer, all the heightened sounds came through as pleasant and not polluting.

Falling asleep was easier than normal, the sound of the wind and the cars driving outside my window was therapeutic. Even the police sirens were pleasant. My mind had cleared out while all my senses heightened. It was a new world I had entered.

The hardest part about this practice was pulling away. I had been in stuck in this new perspective for 24 hours, and I was very anxious to go back to normal. I started thinking about what should be the first thing I say. I also thought about turning back into my silent world. However, once I just said something to my roommate, it almost felt like I never began the silent process. It was very strange. I have not gone silent since then, but I definitely would commit to the discipline again. I remember afterwords being very relaxed and at ease. Maybe we all need a break from talking at some point. Try it out, stop talking for sometime, and start really listening.

Life is full of many wonderful pleasures that many of us, like myself, often forget about. And it's important to recognize that even on bad days, good things still happen. Focusing on these positive aspects of our day-to-day lives can really change a person's perspective. So in thinking about the little things that make so many of us happy, I've here's a list of some of the best things that often go unrecognized and deserve more appreciation:

Summer is hot and humid, and it's almost like summer was made specifically to drink the refreshing, cold, crisp wonderful, delicious, nutritious nectar of the gods. Which is none other than beer; wonderful cold beer. With summer playing peek-a-boo around the corner while we finish up this semester, it's time to discuss the only important part of summer. And if you haven't already guessed, it's beer. There are few things I take more seriously than my beer, in order are: sports... and beer. Here are my favorite summer brews:

Who said working on your summer bod has to stop when summer starts? In SoCal there are hundreds of gorgeous hiking trails in the mountains or on the cliffs overlooking the beach, so maintaining your summer bod is easy on the eyes and a lot less of a drag!

We're lucky enough to live in paradise and we don't take that for granted. We take advantage of our sunsets on the beach and backyard staycation without spending a pretty penny on visiting somewhere that isn't nearly as perfect as SoCal. We're pretty spoiled.

Sometimes you can't think of the perfect caption for your Instagram post. I love using lyrics as my captions because there's so many great lines in songs that just seem to fit in the moment. Here are some lyrics that could work for your selfie or pictures of you with your friends!

Anyone who was born and raised in New Jersey (or anywhere really) knows of Bruce Springsteen, whether or not they like him is a whole other situation. I hope that his hundreds of classic rock songs and famous high energy performances, even in his sixties he can put on better concerts than people half his age, are at least recognizable to people of all ages. Love him or hate him (I identify with the former) you have to admit that some of his songs and interviews have inspirational quotes and lyrics.

Here are a few of Bruce Springsteen's most memorable song lyrics because whether you're a die hard fan who named your dog after the man (I totally did that) or you have other opinions, you have to admit that some of his lyrics are on point:

Liturgy in the strict sense is a public activity, so as such it should be prayed out loud, either recited in less formal settings or chanted with a melody, as monastic communities still do, or somewhere in between.

When you are praying the hours privately it's enough to just read the prayers, psalms and collects to yourself, though of course you are free to do whatever helps you to pray more devoutly, so if that means whispering the words outwardly then so be it.

The liturgy of hours, as I understand it, was traditionally a form of public prayer. The religious communities would pray this together. Thus I'm not sure if there is a "traditional" way to pray it privately. If pressed, I would say it's to sing/chant it as the religious communities did.

You can use Silent hours to temporarily pause the sending of your campaigns to the customer during times when you do not want to disturb them, such as at night or on a Sunday. If this node is entered during silent hours, the scenario will wait under their end and only then send the campaign. Silent hours can be set up for a specific time repeated daily or as Silent days which will silence the whole selected day or both options can be used together. A specific timezone can also be selected for the silent hours to be evaluated against.

Silent hours can be also set up globally in Project settings > Campaigns > General Campaigns settings. This will pre-fill a Silent hour Wait node when it would be selected in a scenario. The setting can be overridden in a specific node if needed.

But Step 2 is mind-numbingly boring, especially since it means for a typical 10 minute video, I'm going to sit there for 30 minutes or so tweaking all the cuts in the silent portion, to try to make the audio flow from one section of the recorded text to the next.

And it's not just for teleprompter recordings. If you're editing screencasts, streaming VODs, vlogs, or interviews, there's a good chance there are a lot of silent portions that need to be cut out before the full editing process begins.

But I figured, Final Cut Pro X is a professional video editing application used by tons of content creators around the world... surely there's a way I can do this without buying separate software that spits out an edit decision list I have to import into Final Cut, right?

Well... sort-of. After a good deal of research and testing, my new method for cutting out gaps of silence is this osascript from jashmenn. It needed a little tweaking to work for my workflow, but combines ffmpeg's silencedetect filter with a little OSA/AppleScript automation to make all the cuts for me.

It's not perfect, and it would be nice to have a few of the more robust features like a real noise gate (attack, decay, etc. so I don't have tiny bits where there is a pop or I set something down), but this makes it so I can just run through and delete the bad takes, adjust the timings for some of the gap cuts, and be on my way!

Your mileage may vary. I've actually forked the Gist into a separate GitHub repository, final-cut-it-out, since I would like to work on improving it and making it more flexible for different framerates and margins.

Music of Silence shows how to incorporate the sacred meaning of monastic living into everyday life by following the natural rhythm of the hours of the day. Learn how to bring mindfulness and prayer into your day-to-day experience in order to reconnect yourself with the sources of joy.

We use the Webex mobile app for phone calls only. Is there a way to silence ringing outside of regular working hours? We have an employee that only wants to hear her phone ring during her regular hours.

In the user portal ( -> Calling), the user may configure a "Selectively Accept Calls". That one does accept a schedule and may be configured to forward calls to another extension/voice mail if the user is not on shift.

2 Nephi 25:7 But behold, I proceed with mine own prophecy, according to my plainness; in the which I know that no man can err; nevertheless, in the days that the prophecies of Isaiah shall be fulfilled men shall know of a surety, at the times when they shall come to pass.

This is intentional on the part of the Lord and his prophets. Things are obfuscated so that only those who search, seek, and knock, have things opened to them in advance, but as Nephi wrote, in the days of the fulfillment of these things, everyone will know as they happen that they are being fulfilled.

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