Meditations

How quiet it is when we have the patience to be silent.

How much we can learn in moments like these.

We can learn to have patience within ourselves, to better understand who and what we are.

We can learn to have patience with others, to better listen to what they say and how they feel.

We can learn to have patience with life, to better work with it, rather than against it.

How much we do need silence:

Silence for truth so that we may learn wisdom,

Silence for wisdom so that we may love,

Silence for love so that we may be just

Silence for justice so that we may live fully.

May we be more patient and more silent, so that we may proceed with courage and compassion.

Charles Games

Let there be silence, let there be reverence in your heart.

Let all the sounds of earth flood over you, in order that you may receive that which only silence can make possible.

Drop down your burdens on the earth, and feel the strength of earth well up through you,

flow upward from the ground through bone and sinew, into strength.

Rest your heart in silence, and a thousand songs you never heard before will pour into your ears.

Throw open the doors of your heart to all, and as its invitation answer finds, your heart will be full,

and they who come will be filled as well.

Let there be silence...let there be reverence.

Let there be welcome, and there will be wonder in your heart.

Robert Weston