Being in Silence

We can read, we can watch and listen to the world outside us.

We can spend time in nature looking for inspiration.

We may look for guidance from others, looking for truths as we go.

We may find answers in the music that we listen to late into the night.

None of this has the depth and the insight that the place of silence has.

None of it will show us the answers in the way that being in silence will.

It is meditation – even for one minute, sitting on the cushion – that opens up our inner world in all of its vastness.

That is the place where so much of the wisdom waits to be discovered.

Also published on Medium.