Silence is golden

Silence is the best teacher because you must search for the truth with something other than your mind. There is nothing to observe or speculate on with the mind. You can’t describe it easily, unless you can begin to be aware of it and feel.

The language of feelings is underrated and in some cases ignored completely. This lack of understanding feelings ignores another important dimension of our experience and abilities. This dimension is the dimension of knowing without thought. It is a direct experience without words or ideas.

Words and ideas can only take you so far and they take you out of your self understanding. They put labels on what you see. Feelings reveal what you know naturally and who you are naturally.

The ego and mind tend to ignore feelings, because they are a basic ingredient of our natural state of being. They are what make us both human and divine in a sense. The ego needs to stand outside feelings, because it will lose its sense of separateness if it doesn't.

Silence brings all things together in your feelings, there is no separation of identity, no you and me. In silence you can be one with the other and in silence all things dissolve into the one. It all begins and ends with us and the silence.