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Silence
By peace | November 19, 2007
Finding Peace Through Silence
The noise in your mind and around you can be distracting at best and deafening at worst. Silence is unfamiliar to most of us. In conversations, we feel uncomfortable if we’re not talking. At home alone, many of us keep the television on for company. In our cars, we listen to radio. When we open the door to our offices, we hear the phones ringing and people buzzing about. When we open the windows in our home, we probably hear the sounds of kids playing, cars driving by and neighbours working around the house. For most of us, the only time there is complete silence is when we rest.
The soul speaks in silence.
Try sitting or lying in a comfortable place for thirty minutes doing nothing. Turn off the television, radio and telephone and close the door. Turn off the noise in your mind, be silent and feel good about it, to let go of your worries and concerns and let in the open space for peaceful thoughts to flourish. These thirty minutes might feel like an eternity. Afterwards you will feel rested, cleansed, and refreshed in the quiet of your private world.
Listen closely in your silent retreat as the gentle embrace of peace of mind warms your heart and soothes your soul without a whisper.
If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace. ~ Anne Shaw
One of the first principles of straight living is the practice of silence. For the voice of God can be heard in the region of your heart when the tongue is stilled and the storm is tilled and the waves are calm. There will be no temptations for others to shout when you talk to them in whispers. Set the level of the tone yourself; as low as possible, as high as necessary to reach the outermost boundary of the circle you are addressing.
Conserve sound, since it is the treasure of the element akasa, an emanation from God Himself. Reason can prevail only when arguments are advanced without the whipping up of sound. Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker. Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine love. Hate screeches, fear squeals, conceit trumpets. But love sings lullabies. It soothes. It applies balm. Practice the vocabulary of love; unlearn the language of hate and contempt.
If there is righteousness in the heart,
there will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character,
there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home,
there will be order in the nation.
When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
~ Chinese Proverb
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