Silence is audible to all men … She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly.*
Henry David Thoreau

By the pressure of reality, I mean the pressure of an external event on the consciousness to the exclusion of any power of contemplation.**
Wallace Stevens

Here are three powers that can developed and employed by anyone:
Silence, solitude, and slowness –
Allowing for reflection and imagination to be brought to
The increasingly forceful pressure of reality we find ourselves facing:
personal identity, workplace
challenges, relational issues, cyber
crime, climate
concerns, loss of
meaning, political forces, world
events, and everything in between.

*Lewis Hyde’s Common As Air;
**Wallace Stevens’s The Necessary Angel.