Guiding Light

ELOQUENT SILENCE

‘This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say. Be more silent. Die and be quiet. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Live in silence’.

- Lao Tzu Some speak ... and say nothing. Some are silent ... because they have nothing to say.

Some are silent ... because they like to listen.

Some are silent ... because they don’t want to tell the truth.

Some are silent ... because they are afraid.

Some are silent ... because they are proud.

Some are silent ... and in their own way eloquent.

God is the most eloquent of all those who are silent. It is in vain to speak against the vain words that fill the world. It is useful to express words that come from the heart. It is valuable to read the Word of God in acts of love.

The God who speaks to the human spirit in the silence is not limited by language, because the language of the spirit is universal. Whoever listens to this God of no words, by means of faith, inspiration, contemplation, tuning in to the wavelength of the spirit, recognizes that God sends out continuous messages.

The one who has his receptive radio completely jammed by his own pride accuses the spirit of not broadcasting. The one who has elevated his own ego to the throne of God has completely isolated himself, thus cutting all the threads that bind him to the wellsprings of life and of truth. The isolated one suffers in his empty spiritual silence, and laments loss of communication.

Many people who are tired of their separation from eternal values and the illusion of transitory values seek to reconnect the threads cut by false modern teachers. Searching among the discarded values they find an instrument which is ancient, humble, powerful, and free of ornaments, music, images, empty forms and heady perfumes: the simple silence of listening to themselves, to others, to God - and they return to living in the dynamic wave of life beyond the limits of pain, fear, and death.

The God of silence has spoken to them in accents that are free, eternal and sublime.