Silence.

Perhaps we need the yin and the yang, perhaps we need a door to push against, perhaps its unhealthy to have so little opposition.
One of the injuries which constant conflict can bring is the assumption that disagreement is normal and harmony unusual. In such a situation the mind has a natural inclination to protect its self. To search out sanity through isolation, to limit noise, to minimise confrontation. This can be attained by separating oneself from most of the external conflict then, one is only left with the internal conflict, normal with any human being.
Remember though that word 'harmony', harmony which evokes a connection with something or someone, a connection that somehow links the mind with that part of what is happening outside the mind, the outside world which with all its warts is all we have to provide us with some sort of reality to our self absorbed persona.
Holding on to rational, reflective thought is difficult since the enormity of the silence we feel when not in communication makes us fear our own fragility. Silence can be just as oppressive as the noise of conflict but at least conflict is human it arises in many forms throughout our lives and we learn to deal with it but silence is alien unless born deaf. 


The weight of silence is oppressive when compared to its antithesis.
I don't mean surrounding yourself with artificiality such as music I mean 'human discourse, which has the expectancy of being meaningful in the way you try to explain the confusion which might bother you, or the happiness of finding a solution.
This is where religion has an important place to bolster and support. The conjecture that God is listening. But of course it takes a special kind of person to believe in God and many people are not given the 'sustenance' of belief.
And so we are left alone to contemplate what we have become and what the future holds, just at the time when our bodies slowly begin to remind us of our impermanence, and begin to let us down.
Yet another issue to consider, in silence !