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# Silence is where it's at
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/silence-is-where-its-at/
- Published: 2025-11-23T07:00:51.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-08T14:00:34.000Z
- Description: I'm a writer, so I have to champion language… but it's small fry, compared with silence 😶
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Presence, Sunday Spiritual, Comics, Neuroscience, Hafiz, TRUE NATURE

This is the punchline from a comic that I follow. You can [read the full thing here](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conspiracy-2?ref=gilespcroft.com), but it’s the last bit that really grabbed my attention.

Aliens are surveying our downfall, and concluding:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-23-at-01.41.20.jpg)](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conspiracy-2?ref=gilespcroft.com)

> *“Imagine billions of tiny brains whose only connection is language.”* 

Because YES! If we really were limited to language as our sole means of communication, “that’d do it” indeed.

Language—a largely left brain, intellectual attribute—is merely a metaphor for something much, much deeper.

A veneer, applied thinly over who-we-really-are.

Language is just pattern-matching and categorisation, based on shared rules.

It’s fine as a *tool* (I mean, I mustn’t knock it – it’s what I use here in the Daily Reminders, every day!) but it’s only a pointer. It’s not “it.”

**Silence is where “it” is at.**

  - Which is why two people sitting in presence can feel a deep sense of connection.
  - Why all the heavy lifting is done in client sessions *after* we stop talking.
  - Why you sense your place in the universe when out in nature, or maybe in silent prayer.

Language is all “after the fact.”

Connection is there *before* the word.

So now put aside your screen—and this language—and just spend a moment doing what you were put on this earth to do: Being. You.

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In doing so, recall these words of Hafiz (it’s been a while)!

> **Curfews**  
> Noise is a cruel ruler  
> Who is always imposing curfews,  
> While stillness and quiet  
> Break open the vintage bottles.  
> Awake the real band!

💟

Giles