The Deepest Silence

January 16, 2019

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January 16, 2019

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See the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

- Mother Teresa -

The Deepest Silence

"Ever abiding within and without, overlaid with the mutable patchwork garment we know as this visible universe, silence forms the woof and warp of all things seen and unseen. Yet at any instant it is immanent and accessible. To the mystic, silence is the ground, the core of reality. All else relates to and emanates from it. The deeper elements in all religions point to this silence. It is God, it is Buddha; it is Allah. But, to paraphrase Lao Tzu, to name it is to elude its essence. It can only be experienced. The fifteenth century Muslim born saint Kabir wittily observed, "I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty." This paradox, which asserts that we are forever surrounded by silence yet all the while occluded to its existence, forms the key dilemma in spirituality."
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