On 5 March, a new edition of the PROA Communication Observatory. On this occasion the guest has been the writer and priest Pablo D'Ors who spoke to a group of businessmen and representatives of civil society about silence and the word. D'Ors is the author of the famous "Biography of Silence of which 30,000 copies have been sold. In February, Pablo presented his latest book "Contra la juventud" and in less than a month the second edition of this work has been published.
D'Ors pointed out that "meditation facilitates the experience of freedom. Being oneself".. In the writer's opinion, "the great men and women have answered the question who am I". For the author of the Biography of Silence We admire people who are genuine, who listen to their conscience, obey it and turn this listening into a way of life. According to D'Ors: "conscience invites us to change but, normally, we prefer the bad known to the good to be known".
"Those who fly are those who have crashed many times. The more you get it wrong, the more likely you are to get it right. The vital risk always pays off. "Life is an invitation to keep growing. You have to have a disciple attitude, to want to learn. A humble attitude because humility is the mother of all virtues".
Pablo, who cares for sick and dying people at the Ramón y Cajal hospital in Madrid, said that "you have to live life at the level of others. Not going up, but going down. To come down from our reality in order to take a sensible flight. Meditation is a school of reality. To meditate is to get close to oneself and we normally live far away from ourselves.
D'Ors has said that "listening to a person is a mystical act because if you listen to me you are not in yourself but in me".
At the Observatory, the writer and priest encouraged those present to "seek how to be well. To enter into inner space and to seek a more sober inner existence because sobriety is a virtue that makes us appreciate what we have. Excess does not lead to an appreciation of what there is. Less is more. "If we are in our centre, everything we do is right. The primary duty is to be in our centre and that there is harmony between what we give and what we receive".
The author also emphasised the need to have a good time: "we don't know how to enjoy ourselves and that is a real drama. We have lost our capacity for ritual. Rituality is consciousness and order and it is good for us. Chaos destroys us. We miss out on life and we have to enjoy what produces joy".
Faced with the fascination of an audience devoted to the art of listening, Pablo D'Ors expressed his deep conviction that what he says is true. "I believe that there is an enormous transformative power. We have shortened the horizon and I believe that my life is going to be increasingly interesting". "When you sow for free you reap in abundance. We have a utilitarian mentality and only gratuitousness fulfils. You only know if you really love someone if you don't want anything from him or her".
Finally, Pablo D'Ors stressed that for real change to take place, "we have to be the way we want others to be. First I must change myself in order to bring about change in others. Silence brings about profound changes in life".