Turn Up the Silence

We are a people obsessed with noise. Music, tv, phones, the sounds of planes and cars. We desperately need to be hearing something although we are also a people that struggle to listen. Why do we fear the quiet? Because the quiet speaks to us. Silence is loud. When we shut off all that distracts us we are left with the deafening volume of our inner self. We tend to fear ourselves. We fear our thoughts and doubt our feelings and long, long, long to be accepted. But, we fear if we are real and raw and true to ourselves we would be rejected. So, we silence our thoughts and turn up the noise in our lives to feel safe from what we think and feel and are. We need to learn to not fear the quiet. The silent stillness beckons us. It is only there that we will know the truth and be free.