Silence says. . .

[Guest guest]

" Silence is the language God speaks and everything else is a bad

translation. "

Thomas Keating

 

" At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;

Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But

neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and

future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent

nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no

dance, and there is only the dance. "

T.S. Eliot

 

 

" Silence is ancient. Silence has been in the space you are at this very

moment for longer than anything else has. It will remain after you leave

and exist long after all other things have faded. "

Unknown source

 

Discovering silence

Your chances of discovering this inner silence serendipitously, are

slim. You could get a taste of it when your hand unexpectedly gets

caught in a lawn mower or something. You are jolted into silence, and

your whole thought process gets interrupted for a few moments. Or you

may have a glimpse of it when you jump out of a plane for the first

time. Or when you jump out for the 31st time, but now your chute fails

to open. In these extreme situations your mind might go into spontaneous

silence, a silence in which you are acutely aware. Your inner dialogue

can come to a halt because of radical circumstance. And in a way it's a

thrill. This silence in your brain, this acute awareness, is so

refreshing, replenishing.

Timothy Schoorel

 

Silence is the mother of everything that has come out from the Depth.

And Silence kept quiet about what she was unable to describe: the

Unspeakable. ~Clement of Alexandria