July 01, 2025

Silence steadies us and stabilizes us, grounds us and points the way. When Jesus said, "Pray always," he was saying "Live out of the silence." The silence is also emptiness and stillness. The three are one, like the Holy Trinity, and they connect us with all that is holy, and lead us to living lives that reveal who we are and what we are about, to our complete surprise and amazement.

Emptiness is the emptiness between breaths. We can experience that by inhaling normally for a count of five and exhaling normally for a count of five, and pausing between breaths 
for a count of ten. Do three rounds being aware of the emptiness between breaths. We might take up the practice of entering silence with three rounds of breathing and counting like this,
and returning to the count of ten if we are restless and unable to quieten down and be silent.

It is fine to watch where our mind goes in the silence. We are waiting for the normal flitting and fluttering about to settle down, and are looking past that, beyond it, to something like a beach ball appearing out of nowhere. Something that arises of its own accord is a gift from the deeper regions calling us to look closer and see what comes to mind, just watching with curiosity and not interfering, waiting to see what comes next and where it goes. This will be fodder for reflection following our period of silence, something to carry with us back to the ordinary world of consciousness in normal, apparent reality.

Reflection to the point of new realizations is the gift of silence in leading us, or helping us to find the way within the current state of affairs of our life in the present moment and in all of the situations and circumstances as they arise. We are wondering in the background of our life what is called for and. how we might do what needs to be done with the gifts we possess from birth: Our original nature, our innate virtues--the things we do best and enjoy doing most--our inherent imagination, and our intrinsic intuition. 

These are the things that connect us with "the spirit world," that is the world of Psychic Reality, the unconscious world from which we come and of which we know very little, but we are linked to that world by our inner regions of unconscious gifts and abilities that help us find our way to ourselves, our gifts and the life that is ours to live experiencing and exploring who we are and what we are about.

And silence leads the way as we "live out of the silence" in all that we do.