Silence is not what you have after your visitors have left. It is not what makes you feel alone in your own home. It is not what happens when you have offended someone. No, silence is your true nature.

No one tells you that; you have to figure it out yourself.

We all resist silence because it feels alien to us; yet we are the aliens.

Silence often happens after you have had a good cry, the kind that cleanses you and allows the peace in silence to enter. And you sit there tear-soaked and exhausted.

Some of us begin our search for God in such a silence, which is not defeat but a doorway into the soul’s reality.

We then read books looking for information on awakening. Usually our intellects take over and we ignore the background of silence in which our search is taking place.

After many years we return to silence unarmed and defenseless and the silence finally begins to speak to us. Not in words but in energy! Ah, the energy of silence is what awakening is about.

We are renewed by silence. Words are useless. They cannot carry us back home. Silence lies above and below the torrent of words. We rest now in its power and its grace.

The Bible says “Be still and know.” And we do. And we are. And we shall be.

Vicki Woodyard