now i get it!

Very true!   They've got things rigged though so that people are accustomed to non-stop noise and commotion, 24/7.  Hustle bustle, to and fro, run amok, busy busy busy, noise noise noise.  Talking chatter and noise, all the time.   With cell phones they've got people talking even more, further distracting themselves, enamoured by their own voice, loving to hear themselves talk just for the sake of it.  In many homes, people keep the TV going all day and night so they can have "voices" and noise going for comfort.  Silence makes them uneasy.   When you're out in public, we have TV's everywhere, blaring music, people talking nonstop BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!   makmakmakmak!!   Cell phones ringing, cars everywhere, noise.

Time for silence.   Stop talking.  Be still.  Quiet!    Be an anarchist and close your mouth!   Turn off the radio and TV!   Pitch the cell phone in the nearest dumpster!  Sit alone in a silent room!   Imagine that! 

That's a very wise method for attaining peace. The control-freak method would be to try and silence all the external things which vibrate in an attempt to impose quietude. But then there would be no end to your actions. Better to let go and have faith!

The extract below sums up the benefits of silence nicely. My mind is a whirl a lot sometimes, and this brings me back to remembering what is important about being still. I have it in my favourite quotes folder, but forgot to note where I found it. I think it is from RA via David Wilcox......

[...]An immersion in silence is powerful. Even one such experience may be life-changing although that is not the norm. Perhaps the most important feature of your meditative practice should be its dailiness. No matter how well or poorly you feel that you are meditating, it is well to intend to do it the same way each day, not to dwell on any past “bad“? meditations or missed ones. Aim for doing it every single day.

The length of your silence may vary although it is a good idea to become regular in your habits in order that you might do it at all. If you set yourself too ambitious a schedule of meditation you will surely miss one when you are fatigued, and after the first miss or two, you will be far less enthusiastic about doing it again. You can say to yourself, “Oh well, I have already missed so many, one more day won’t hurt.“? Meditating a modest fifteen or twenty minutes a day will be of inestimable value to you if you are faithful in doing it every day.

The real work of meditation is the relaxing of the structure of the conscious mind so that thought processes do not occur necessarily governed by the rules of mentation. We, as biocomputers, are perceptors and recorders of an astonishing array of anarchic, unstructured sensations-visual, aural and the rest. We have several large programs and subprograms within our computers which ruthlessly organize the data presented, throwing out over ninety-nine percent of it and concentrating on those things which it has tagged as relevant to the programs It is organized to run.

Meditation allows new programs to surface, programs designed to assist in decision-making, the only purpose of the computer, and programs designed to feed more data into the base from within the mind itself, its far memory and so forth. However, the conscious programs block out the program assists and the special programs which are offered by the subconscious mind. For the two to work together, these controls must be lifted. Meditation will accomplish this if done faithfully and daily for long enough. It is not often an astonishingly quick process.

This explains, by the way, why great trauma creates a heightened rapidity of learning. During traumatic times, the programs of the mind are being urged to change. Computer programs cannot change without dying and being restructured. The computer strives to maintain, and must dump the program instead . This releases an enormous amount of power, because any time the conscious programming is loosened, the program assist from the subconscious mind springs into action, and a very enhanced field of data, and program for organizing data, goes into effect.

This is why it is not necessary to achieve a perfect meditation each time. It is an aesthetic joy to worship by offering a perfect service, whether ritualistic or silent, to the Creator-but not biologically necessary. It is only necessary that the intention be strong and that the mind will accept instruction at some level and begin to loosen the logical programming compulsion, thereby automatically completing circuits into the subconscious mind and into the frontal lobes. It is as though heart and mind were at once linked-a very helpful state.[...]
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