We have a strong tendency to
imagine Silence as
the absence of sound.
This imagination deprives Silence of being anything in itself
and makes it an emptiness, a void…
But Silence was here before
anything else.
It is the most primary phenomenon
of existence,
both palpably something and seemingly nothing.
Silence is prior to sound, not the
cessation of sound.
It is already present.
If we drop into quietness for just
a moment,
We *feel* the presence of Silence
as in invitation.
We are being invited into a new
way of being.
Silence is not merely the void
from which things spring up;
it is a living presence…
As we enter the mystery of
Silence, its presence resonates
throughout the fibers of our flesh,
while extending beyond the flesh…
The inward silence of solitude meets with the
Great Silence of Cosmic Wisdom…
Silence bears the wholeness we
keep looking for.
It is around us and within us.
It goes to the deepest depths of the soul
and to the outermost reaches of the cosmos
uniting in our heart.
The experience comes with
astonishing intimacy
and feels like the finding of a long lost beloved.
It requires going to the edge of selflessness
and we discover that we are part of the depth of
everything around us.
Separation between ourselves and
the world is illusion.
We, along with everything else,
are within Silence.
This realm of Silence is pregnant with the ever-living Mystery.
It is the deepest feeling of
communing,
[of being] touched by the ineffable,
that keeps us intimately bound with the truth of our core being,
the very essence of our being;
an interiority that has been waiting for us.
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Silence has a rhythm all its own.
The currents of Silence weave
polarities and opposites
and contradictions together.
Within Silence everything resonates in true intimacy and mystery.
When we perceive *through* the
depths of Silence
we discover the invisible body of the world in which everything is
nurtured into existence at every moment.
We discover ourselves as
participants in the Great Silence.
We are not detached observers of an independent phenomenon,
for we exist within the Silence we are observing.
The world of subjective experience
and outer presence dissolve into one field.
When we incline toward Silence
a resonance is set up within our heart,
prompting an inclination of our heart to
enter deeper into the realm of Silence…
In the interior space of the
etheric heart
we feel the currents of Silence as an endless
intimate infinity that we are within.
We are held within a tender, loving,
invisible presence…
A vivid Presence of Silence…
Please Note: I have taken excerpts
and lines from
various pages of the book: Silence: The Mystery
of Wholeness by Robert Sardello and put them
together creating this prose poem with the publisher’s
and author’s permission. For me his words here capture
the Essence of Silence and my experience of the
Great Silence as well…
Copyright - Publisher’s Credit
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Excerpts from
Silence:
The Mystery of Wholeness by Robert
Sardello, published by
North Atlantic Books, copyright
© 2006, 2008 by Robert Sardello. Reprinted by permission of
publisher. Reposting or reprinting of material strictly forbidden
except by express permission of publisher.
Note:
Permission was granted me by the publisher for this
material to be presented in this format for this blog post.
If you wish to repost it you must contact the publisher at:
permissions@northatlanticbooks.com.
Please honor the publisher’s/author’s
copyright.
Thank you…
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