So what? To when language fails.

Bliss at the expense of language failing is important because of what it exposes us to. Dr. Jill Taylor expresses this in sharing her experience of having a stroke and the left hemisphere of her brain becoming silent. She emphasizes the difference in the brain hemispheres by “personalities.” In being so, the right hemisphere is the “we” personality, while the left is the “I”. The right hemisphere of her brain basically became the center of her consciousness when She had lost all speech, logic and motor skills. Surprisingly, this brought her to be thoroughly at peace. She stresses how the silence her right hemisphere brought her was the key to Nirvana. The loss of language was important because it created a euphoric sense of peace that should be experienced by all beings. If everyone had a chance to live this phenomenon of complete silence provided by only the right hemisphere, we would ultimately become one. In saying so, as human beings, we would be able to unite and altogether cooperate. To Dr. Jill Taylor, this vast and utter silence is the key to world peace, to world happiness and everything that could possibly come in between. In the poem, “Mediation at Lagunitas,” the loss of language is made up for in physical expression, in emotion and feeling. Robert Hass writes, “There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing.”  It is important for language to be lost sometimes because words cannot always express what needs to be “said.” Ultimately, it can be determined that bliss can only be found in an absence of words.