Silence, a powerful force...

By Vichara


There are those that seek to have their presence known all of the time. This may have come as a result of some past insecurity in their lives. It will appear in many forms, a loud exhaust noise with a car or motorcycle or turning up music or television that disturbs others around without much consideration because of this primal compulsion to be noticed. But the alternative for these people, silence, is probably unthinkable. If only they would realize that within silence there is such a strong and powerful message. Anyone that has seen great vistas of beauty like the immense Grand Canyon, a dense forest blanketed with thick snow, a lake at sunset or acres of farmland in the early morning hours will know that within silence is the pathway and door to a better understanding of oneself and the world around them.

reify • \RAY-uh-fye\ • verb
: to regard (something abstract) as a material or concrete thing : to give definite content and form to (something abstract)

Example Sentence:
"He describes the phenomenal popularity of Edwin Markham's proletarian poem 'The Man With the Hoe,' which reified labor's feelings of injustice." (Neal Gabler, The Washington Post, February 18, 1996)

Did you know?
"Reify" is a word that attempts to provide a bridge between what is abstract and what is real. Fittingly, it derives from a word that is an ancestor to "real" -- the Latin noun "res," meaning "thing." Both "reify" and the related noun "reification" first appeared in English in the mid-19th century, though "reification" is a few years older and some dictionaries consider "reify" to be a back-formation of the noun. In general use, the words refer to the act of considering or presenting an abstract idea in real or material terms, or of judging something by a concrete example.

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