Silence. Where do you go to experience it?
To me, silence is as the evasive happiness...the more you seek it and strive for it the less likely you are to find it. When you think about it, silence is only known by the sounds that interrupt it.
Yet silence is the language that speaks peace.
I live near a large art museum and it has large gardens and sculpture gardens on the grounds. Often, I will go there in the evenings to pray and to read.
Last night, I sat next to a fountain and closed my eyes in prayer and meditation. I focused on the sounds...each individual tone that made up the music of the trickling water. But then I tried something else, I consciously tried to listen to the the silence within the trickling water fountain.Peace.
It filled my spirit. Gratitude soon followed and overflowed my soul. And Love seemed to sit beside me as I sat there.
Silence, Peace, Gratitude and Love--happy companions for a wonderful life.
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