Quiet
“The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.” – Ecclesiastes 9:17
“Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.” – Proverbs 17:28
Both insecurity and dignity manifest themselves as quietness.
Quiet confidence is more attractive than loud confidence.
Quietness without confidence is self-interested, self-conscious.
Confidence without quietness is self-interested, self-promoting.
One with quiet confidence has the capacity to consider another:
security in One’s identity yields mental capacity to consider another;
silence yields physical capacity to hear the Other.
Activism is most admirable complemented with quiet activism.
The loudest activism is paramount when One advocates for another,
thereafter, One ought to assume quiet activism as a way of life.
Quiet activism is living with integrity.
Quiet activism is living in the world as if the world is already as it ought to be:
not locking your bike because the world ought not to need locks at all.
Quiet activism is turning the other cheek.
Back in the day, I desired to replace my awkwardness with charisma.
These days, I desire to transform my awkward silence to comfortable silence.