Silence

Long my enemy

Demands my attention

 

Silence

Is a form of fluidity

Not an enduring stillness … never stationary

Often welcomed

Sometimes rejected

 

In silence

My stories come

Incomplete

With present anxiety

Fast, uncontrolled

 

During silence

I seek to choose

Symmetry … control of my stories

Inspiring vistas, grounding spaces

I feel embraced

Vulnerable

Yet powerful

 

Silence births vivid emergence

Rendering an irrelevance of the present

Sometimes deepening my presence

Always inward

Yet, pushes me to move outward

 

Silence is often associated with the negative actions of communication and implies concealment, sometimes indicating hostility or disagreement, or the skilled interview/conversational technique to induce unease to the other person in the communication.  However, the silence being written about here is about the more disciplined art of intentional contemplation. In deliberate silence, there is nothing to be known – what must, emerges from the holding space as full-body realisation(s). We can’t force it. In fact, we have to do the opposite. Let go, surrender and be open to accepting the direct experiential knowledge and wisdom that emerges from the practice of balanced self-perception. It is an inwardly felt-journey, mostly travelled alone and not with others, a returning, that leads to full presence, raised conscious awareness and a form of human healing – so directly opposed to the busy-ness and information push of modern lifestyles. As a result, one literally has to separate oneself from the resonance of modernity, and hone in on a more simpler thread. Change happens deeper than at a systemic level.