SILENCE
For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research. To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting....
- Pope John Paul II
... in the presence of this magnificence and grandeur, some small hint of that eternal majesty is conveyed to us who pause and, in quiet, worship ...
- from a chapel entrance
Be still, and know that I am God.
- Psalms 46:10
Sit quietly; go within. That is where God and Self-Realization are to be found.
- Sri Daya Mata, 18, Finding the Joy Within You: Personal Counsel for God-Centered Living
Be still and know.
- Swami Lotus, www.watermoonrefuge.org
"Be still and know that I am God" (Psalms 46:10). Never flaunting His omnipresence, the Lord is heard only in the immaculate silences.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Just to pause. That's all.
For a while, to step outside the pressure. The noise. The busyness.
Come, then, to the place that always welcomes, always waits.
At the gate you surrender your cares.
Once inside, you begin to let go. The mind steadies, then quiets.
Stillness remains. Like moon above water; like water holding moon.
Two that are both, yet neither.
The One.
That's all.
And enough.
- Swami Lotus, www.watermoonrefuge.org
That which is the Voice of God is silence, that we sink into the Voice of God, we sink into the silence, which is indicative of Divine Presence. Behind the thought, behind the thinkingness is an infinite silence and the Infinite Silence is the source of all existence, and between the thoughts, under the thoughts is the profound silence and all we have to do is become aware of that silence, all we have to do is become aware of that silence by realizing it's there...
And we thank Thee, O Lord,
for Thy Divine Presence,
as the Infinite Silence,
out of which arises our existence.
Amen
- David R. Hawkins, www.veritaspub.com