Sure, cynics are broken-hearted idealists, who promise never to trust or love, again. If you ask me, they poison life with their calculating, small-mindedness.
A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
- Wilde
In the pregnant prescription of one who devoted an entire book of thoughtful meditations to this subject, philosopher Max Picard says: “Silence is listening.” And, as attentive practitioners of this metaphysical art may sense, it can sometimes be unclear who is doing the actual listening… us, or Silence itself.
So, yes, Master, all ways, never tool. It is Silence that uses us ;)