quarrtsiluni

Quarrtsiluni: Seth Godin brought us this word on his recent blog. The Inuit word for “sitting together in the darkness, quietly, waiting for something creative or important to occur.” 

“Of course, this works,” Seth says. What gets in the way is our addiction to noise. Thank you, Seth. Wow, what a word!

The year's shortest days. So can we do this? Sit together in darkness? No doing, no talking? (Can we sit together like this while on our Zoom calls, for example?)

Can we practice quiet presence (and be okay with our inner voices fiercely objecting)? Dare we be with questions (without jumping into chats or vocal answers?) And dare we glimpse, for a fleeting moment, that maybe we are without problems?

No problems in the silence that has accepted all that life is? 

In this singular space — the unknown and ever uncertain — creative health emerges. We can go forward. Connected. Real.

Eventually, we’ll know what to do. But there will only be doing or not-doing. Without our worried meddling.

Thoughtful writing, insight for action. Clear, effective steps grounded in skill and love, affecting life’s arc as it bends into the future.

We can trust the quiet darkness. We can trust each other in silence. Let’s experiment?

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