The Magic of Silence in a World of Incessant Noise

Suzi’s Secrets #34: The power of silence in a noisy world.

There are places where the world grows quiet enough for something deeper to be heard.

There was a time when silence was ordinary.

Not sacred. Not rare. Just… present.

Moments without commentary and when there was commentary, it was meaning filled. Evenings without notifications. Long stretches of thought that didn’t need to be shared, labeled, or reacted to.

Now, silence feels uncomfortable, unnatural.

We live in a world that never stops talking. Never stops feeding the noise. Feeds scroll endlessly. Opinions arrive fully formed and always uninformed. Answers are offered before the question has time to settle and never fact checked. Noise fills every gap,  and we’ve been taught that this is connection.

But life has never lived in noise.

Life’s magic lives in the pause.

It lives in the space between thoughts. In the breath before a decision. In the moment when something feels right (or even wrong) long before you can explain why.

Silence is where intuition speaks and that’s precisely why it’s so uncomfortable now. When everything around us is loud, constant, and urgent, listening inward feels almost rebellious. It asks us to slow down in a world that profits from speed. It asks us to trust something that can’t be measured, tracked, or optimized.

And yet… that quiet knowing persists.

You feel it when a story unsettles you in ways you can’t name. When a sentence lingers longer than it should. When something glossy and glowing leaves you inexplicably cold.

Not everything that speaks is telling the truth.

Silence has a way of revealing what words conceal.

It’s where patterns become visible. Where repetition starts to feel intentional. Where you notice how often the same narratives are recycled, repackaged, and fed back to us as choice.

Silence doesn’t shout. It doesn’t persuade. It waits.

That waiting can feel eerie, like standing alone in a darkened room, aware that something is present but yet to announce itself. That unease is part of the magic. It’s the threshold. The place where awareness begins. And that “something” that’s present, but unannounced is you. Your intuitive voice. That quiet voice that we’ve endlessly scrolled to ignore.

In old stories, this is always the moment before awakening. The moment when the heroine stops reacting and starts listening. When she realizes the noise has been drowning out something ancient and persistent and true.

Silence doesn’t give you answers. It gives you clarity. And clarity, once felt, can’t be unfelt.

So when the world feels louder and everything seems to be speaking at once, and lately it is. If you find yourself craving quiet, but unable to stand it, without knowing why, that may not be exhaustion. It may be intuition, knocking softly.

And magic, as it always has, waiting patiently to be heard.

Sometimes the noise is too loud for the characters in the worlds I create too. They long for reflection and peace and truth. If you’re new to my blog (or if you’re returning) welcome. This blog (and the stories they grow from) continue beyond the posts. I share occasional letters with my mailing list that include new posts, short stories, glimpses into the worlds I’m writing, and quiet moments from the creative process as my new novel, Bound by Flame unfolds, sent quietly, when there’s something worth saying. The sign-up is below, should you wish to continue along.

Suzette R. Berry 💜