In the fast-paced motions of life, it can be very easy to lose yourself. We don’t usually notice it but a new promotion, an added assignment, even an interesting hobby is all it takes to blur the lines between stop and go. Silence is as essential to living as the pauses in a musical score. If we design our schedules like endless notes following after one another without end, the melody essentially reduces itself into noise and all we get at the end of the day is a set of tired fingers.

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