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Disrupt, and you will be saved.
Once You Feel Like You Are Avoided By Someone,
Never Disturb Them Again..
How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!
In case you don't know, we live on a restless planet. The
The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.
I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.
People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.
THREE DAYS LATER A MESSAGE WAS LEFT UNDER A PEBBLE UPON THE SUNDIAL." "'If it really annoys you, Hilton, we might go and travel, you and I, and so avoid this nuisance.' "'What, be driven out of our own house by a practical joker?
When you are touched by a calling, answer on the first ring. As time passes the volume decreases until it is silenced forever by our allotted time.
It was 8am. My phone was ringing. What kind of society do we live in where someone can make your phone ring at 8am? There should be rules.
It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others
to shake them out of their rut.
The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
I want to inform them
that I am not silent
because I have nothing to say.
I am silent
because nobody is listening.
You've so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don't ask how. Then you come near. "Do not ... " I say, and "Do not ... ," you answer. Don't ask why this delights me.
Alarm, when used for anything less than a fire or an air attack, is certain to muddle the mind, unsettle the senses, and, in most cases, more than double the danger.
The most disturbing sound in the world comes from the alarm clock at 5:30am
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.
The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.
Attain to the place where no one and no thing can disturb you.
There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today ...
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
I've never liked the telephone. It's a noisy, shrill intruder. If it were up to me, I'd ban all phones and bring back visiting days, like in Jane Austen and Edith Wharton novels:
Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.
Left alone with the dial tone ... excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?
I bear messages which will make both your ears tingle.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.
I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.
Turn off all notifications; you should control when you want information, not the reverse.
When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.
Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.
WENT ON a long journey by telephone last week. It started with a message in my office on that fiendish modern invention, second in its monstrousness only to the television, the answerphone.
You did not disturb me, said the pegasus. I disturbed myself, that I might speak to you.
I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'm living in a real postmodern time - every single thing sings to you to tell you it's started, it's stopped, you've got a message, you didn't get a message ...
Someone who can make things happen must be alerted.
Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this
For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.
What are the messages that you are entertaining?
Before digital and mobile communications effectively tethered us to an invisible, infinite 'wire,' even those with the most hectic schedules were usually willing to answer the phone if they happened to be home when it rang.
I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell ... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.
Mark Samuels reached a hand into the darkness to silence the shrilling of his mobile phone alarm and felt his reflexes pull him awake sharply, with no consideration for the vestiges of his disordered dreams.
Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts
We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.
The phone ring so I go in the kitchen and answer it. Got a little
Make you mess your message.
They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself ...
I reflected, not for the first or last time, that when you are reading, others think they can disturb you because you are not doing anything.
Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.
The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad baby.
The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.
Let all your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. It's not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things that drive them mad.
What appears to be an interruption is often an intervention.
Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers.
What do you mean, something important? It's the middle of the night!
-Sandstorm
I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."
Sometimes you have a noisy neighbour. You cannot do anything about that. They will always be noisy. You just have to get on with your life, put your television on and turn it up a bit louder.
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.
I meant to do my work today
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree
And a butterfly flitted across the field
And all the leaves were calling me.
I am hungry to be interrupted
For ever and ever amen
When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.
You're not bothering me. I'm not doing anything. Well, I was breathing, and my heart was beating. But the rest of me wasn't busy.
Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door
If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.
Jeeves."
"Sir?"
"Are you busy just now?"
"No, sir."
"I mean, not doing anything in particular?"
"No, sir. It is my practice at this hour to read some improving book; but, if you desire my services, this can easily be postponed, or, indeed, abandoned altogether.
I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.
Like the White Rabbit in Alice, I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date. They're following me, you see, but I needed to double back and talk to you. Busy-busy-busy!
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.
Don't pick up the phone every time it rings. It is there for your convenience, not the convenience of others.
I use my iPhone as an alarm, so when it goes off, I pick it up and casually scroll through whatever emails may have come in while I was asleep.
Texting, even browsing the Internet - all these things can attract monsters.
Problem 3: What innovative change could be made to an alarm clock to make it more effective? Proposed solution: If you hit snooze, your coworkers are notified via e-mail that you overslept.
Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.
Too often in our culture of BlackBerrys and cell phones, people are disengaged and disconnected and distracted from their immediate surroundings.
My ears rang all the way home and I didn't want them to stop. It made me want to start something.
I am a restless person.
But over and above the offers of help and love, precious and determined though they are, is the fact that we are public knowledge. Our signal has been heard. By each response a friend is activated. Our message had a single note. Here is its returning chord.
Don't talk to me while I'm interrupting.
There are things that go bump in the night
A sound from upstairs sends my thought process reeling. It's just a small noise, perhaps the sound of your feet brushing the crimson carpet in the bedroom? It's not loud or menacing, but it sends a wave of adrenaline crashing through me. You're on your way!
I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.
Go to where the silence is and say something.
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
The urgent can drown out the important.
Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.
His Majesty is in a state meeting. He's requested that he not be disturbed."
"The man is already disturbed. I'm just here to beat some sense into his feeble little brain.
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.
In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.
Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.
No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the teachers are losing the battle.
Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal.
Cell phones are like a dog's nipples ... you don't have to shout into them!
The peculiar problem of constant connectivity: any silence of more than a few hours provokes apocalyptic thoughts.
Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!
I rouse you with loud knocking, I do so
only because I seldom hear you breathe
Extinguish even the wee annoyance, as it will grow to become evil!