Silence is More (April 2021 Newsletter)
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Spending time in silence is not something most of us think of during our day. But silence speaks. It has a lot to say.
Personally, I am finding more and more that its practice, much like meditation, has created a completely different dimension to my being. Listening to my silence I hear my breath and not much else.
Without sounding contrary, sometimes I am addressing the silence and sometimes there are revelations which are obvious, but profound. Recently, my thought in silence was that the Ultimate Energy has created and continues to create amazing life and forms far beyond our imagination. Where life form has been destroyed by changing climatic conditions, natural disasters and the like, new shapes and forms resembling the old are being formed out of the ashes, so to speak. Rapidly moving to a point of no return, I have the thought that life is full of wonder even in our limited view of the world. We can’t even imagine what lies beyond. Most scientific conclusions suggest an ultimate collapse of the world as we know it with limited possibility of life continuing as we know it. I speak to my silence and ask if this wonderful Universe can prosper and continue to grow happily for just a century? The response is immediate. Yes, certainly, but there can be peace and contentment only when there is no (NONE) violence, greed, avarice, lust, sloth or acquisitiveness for the 100 years from anybody. This has to include all beings. Do you abide by these restrictions each day? Can you do so everyday from now till your time has come? There may be no second chances for any life form simply because life is too busy for me right now! Stop, breathe, meditate and do what's best for all, all the time!
I’ll get to ‘silence’ as a topic next time but that’s what got me here! Be silent and listen. The answers, directions, guidance will come in clear-cut words, thoughts, directions and guidance even through the silence.
Namaste,
sipra