What was the most important lesson you learned in your life?

I am wondering if I should answer the question above. Anyway, I learned how to love hard-to-love people, find peace within, and enjoy life in the process.

Great hub, including pictures!

So true. I bet the price of anti-hearing aids goes up (yes, they exist but not called that). I don't think Aussies are the nosiest by far, Americans shreik more, and a drunken Brit soccer crowd...!

Absolute silence is so hard to find anywhere. Turning off the telly is like taking a tranquiliser...but then my two Aussies start squawking...maybe you're right, but they're only little budgies!

Bob Lovely photos....

WOW") this is a powerful way to get the point across and I like the way you put it together. Yes it's the times of silence that really make the world around us into the place it truly is. When you can connect with it and see it in all of it's splendor and share that feeling of serenity and tranquillity you my new friend are living the grace of ALL") Very well written thank you for bringing me to pardise of a few minutes today. Voted^bri36

Beautiful photos. I think i have learned that nothing is free, you must work to obtain whatever is wanted. There are times when silence is golden to me. Very interesting article...

Nicely done with great photographer.

The Frog

Interesting hub with great pictures that match the mood.

HI Beata Stasak. Your points are well made in a most thoughtful way. Along with your photographs, you give much food for thought.

Graham.

Thanks for this : ) I have spent considerable time down at matagarup with my Nyoongar activist friends and had the trauma of seeing the incident where the police steered his horse into the woman carrying a friends baby while just standing off to one side. She thought she was safe, who would imagine a policeman on horseback would purposefully try to ram you while you are just standing holding a baby in a place you have every right to be? After all they had left the actual campsite area. You have captured the fundamental issues and a beautiful and non-confrontational way. Lovely.

Umm, not too sure whether the hub is about "the most important thing learned in life"? Or is it about silence? Was that the most important lesson for you Beata?

It has been said that; the most important things in life, are learned in kindergarden?

I find it astonishing how much moise pollution society tolerates. Apparently it is okay to fire up a leaf blower, that is of such ear-splitting crescendo that hurts my unprotected ear from 2 city blocks away?

I have worked most of my life in an industrial setting, where there are tolerances for noise and it's suppression. Yet it's okay for people to exercise while jogging or walking down the street, in early hours, that you can hear their conversation through double-paned windows. Or the man next door goes out every morning before noise curfew to whack up logs for firewood. Why he cannot do the whole pile one afternoon, is strange to me. Thwack, thwack, the dull boom and vibration of his using the ground for this purpose echoes through my house. Not to count the slammed doors and car alarms that erupt spontaneously at any time of day.

I live in south-east British Columbia Canada and the noise at the top of the mountain from the small town below is magnified. You can hear everything including indistinguishable voices. A person has to go over or around to the next valley to escape it.

My conclusion is? That most people do not give a rat's equus africanus asinus; about the amount of noise around them, or whether they are being offensive.

Maybe, that's my thing learnt? ...... Cheers!

A wonderful message said with conviction. The lines you sketch are vivid, so much so that the visual and emotional connection is instant to me. I love the cascade of ephemeral waterfalls, silent alleys and rain dripping foliage. The plight of natives versus the tyranny of some invaders is an eternal issue... you've said it so well. Voted up!

Great poem with beautiful photos! Thanks for sharing.

Beata, Well I thought it was what you had learned. My answer then was more about how silence or quiet is perceived in society. I notice some personalities like to yell and scream, when "having fun", at the top of their lungs. While others have as much fun but without the fuss. I'm not sure what it is like in Aussie bush? Here in canuck-land it is noise, unabated.

BTW there is a yogic meditation that involves closing the ears to sound, to listen to the sounds inside. You will be surprised at how much noise is going on in there .... ;-]

During my life, I've had many profound lessons. As much as anyone? I guess? The most profound lesson for me. Would be the day I saw north america's great ape. Called the sasquatch. Known in Asia as the yeti and in Florida as the swamp ape. The strangest thing, for me, was that I saw them from my living room at midday.

What I saw that day, blew my mind right out of the water. It was unexpected because I thought they were folklore, a bit like trolls? That was fifteen years ago, or so.

The lesson for me, even though I had always felt open-minded about things. The lesson was not to take things, as assumed. That seeing is believing! That to keep my opinion reserved until knowing, for sure.

From the people I have told this too including my ex-wife; did and do not believe me either. I can't say I blame them. However some did; including Dr. John Bindernagel, a man who can be found through the web. Be that as it may? The incident affected me profoundly and that's what i try to stay focussed on. .... Cheers!

Beautiful in words and imagery; a powerful lesson.

A really beautiful Hub! Voted up and marked everything except funny. No, I don't agree with policemen dispersing peaceful protests by using excess force. I have certainly seen enough of that in my lifetime! And yes, finding silence is a wonderful and important objective. Your writing reminded me yet again of my Qigong excercises, sadly postponed! Must try again to get organized and look for silence in standing meditation! Also, thanks for your fan mail, and for your interest. I am organizing a series of Hubs on the Tango, number two is almost ready. Hope you enjoy!

The Biggest Lesson:

Time doesnt go back, you better take the opportunities or they will slip away for good.

I've learned to appreciate even the smallest token that I received for the past days.

Having to say thank you for a good act extended to me makes me a better person and a do-gooder, as well. :)

lovely :)

Beata, I love your work. Thankyou for it.

My greatest lesson learned is: that life is a mirror. The face you see in the glass, is the one that you put into it.

In answering the question, I would say remembering to be genuinely grateful for the little things as well as the more obvious good things in life. Hopefully this will keep me grounded and not take things for granted.

the most important lesson one ever needs to learn is that a lesson needs to be learned on a daily basis. Because without knowledge, we discontinue to grow as an intellect and therefore restrain ourselves from developing a mind that can comprehend the true world that surrounds us!

This is a complex, thought-provoking hub with an interesting combination of poetry and photography to illuminate spiritual and political issues and perhaps how they interrelate. Did I get that right, in terms of your intention?

Best wishes.

JSParker...

I believe what you are asking is on the correct page! What I believe Betta is saying in that beautiful poem is one needs to speak up when it is necessary and to stay silent if it will do more harm than good. Speaking up can be good when voting unless you vote for the bad side! speaking up can be bad when deciding that a bomb in a busy mall will be the cure-all to all the problems.

Being a communication major in college has taught me that Beata! Along with living half a century in a world where governments semm to topple daily from insurgents who either have the plan down right or are so messed up in what they are saying they lose out quickly! Bombs are no way to speak out as neither is killing innocents who have no say one way or the other! Communication is a gift from God!!! it is ones ability to learn to use that gift that makes progress!