You know,
The Bible says,
In the beginning was the Word,
But perhaps in the beginning was silence,
The silence of the creative principle,
The silence of our souls.
This silence is inside each one of us.
It's there really,
Really deep in our hearts.
It's a silence that holds the whole universe,
And we're part of that.
We're part of this silent,
Universal energy,
And we make a lot of noise on top of this silence.
We have our personalities and our egos and all our thoughts about things and our civilizations and the noise and the noise of this world and our internal noise,
You know,
Of our inner psychological states and our resentments and self-pity and our hatreds.
It's noisy,
And we're getting unhappy,
I feel,
Because we need to go back to this silence.
We need to at least know about this silence,
That it's inside us.
You cannot run from it.
You cannot run from the silence inside you.
And many of us are scared of it,
You know.
In the big picture,
This is what our anxiety is really about.
We're frightened of our true natures,
The silence inside,
The silence of the unconditional love that we're made out of.
You know,
Scientists know that everything is made out of energy,
But we don't realize that this energy is unconditional,
Universal love,
And it's really the silence that I'm talking about.
Now,
Spiritual masters have all found that silence inside,
And they live from that,
Which is why they're so peaceful and happy,
Because the noise of their egos has gone completely.
So,
You know,
The spiritual masters are trying to help us find the silence inside us.
You know,
There are many of them are even on the internet,
And there's some real authentic ones,
And they're wanting to help us find the silence inside,
Really by just telling us that it's there,
First of all,
So that we know that it's there,
And that perhaps too we could learn to find it.
And it's not far away.
That silence was in you when you were born.
It was there when your ego formed sort of on top of it.
And when we get sort of unhappy or disappointed by life,
It's actually easier to turn inside then,
Because we become less attracted to the outside.
We're a little more disillusioned.
So sometimes people,
You know,
They just retreat into their private hells,
Really.
That's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about retreating,
Maybe a little bit from the world,
Stepping back,
Stepping back to open up to your own silence.
You know,
Coming back to the silence within you and listening,
Listening to the guidance that comes from there.
Because the guidance will be,
You know,
It will be profound.
It will be exactly what you need to hear for your next step or for an explanation about what your life is about.
It will just bubble up from this silence,
The silence of knowing,
The silence of your being.
You know,
Personally,
It took me a long time to find my silence.
I remember in my 30s,
Being scared that somebody was going to leave the room.
So I'd have to actually feel my feelings or,
You know,
Have to face kind of the emptiness inside that I was so scared of.
But you know,
We get scared of emptiness,
Isn't,
You know,
The lack of meaning.
We're scared like that we're just going to be abandoned in a meaningless world.
But actually,
When you come back to the silence within,
It's the opposite.
It's full of meaning.
It's full of peace.
It's full of wisdom.
It's full of everything that you could possibly need.
You know,
We're so out of touch with it in our modern world.
The good news is we're so out of touch with it that we're going to have to turn and find it if we want any kind of happiness or sanity.
So the point of this video is actually,
You know,
It bubbled up from the silence within,
Even though it sort of wasn't a verbal message,
But it bubbled up for me to make a video about the silence within.
So I just followed.
And I know this will strengthen the silence within me and will strengthen it in you and help you hear it,
Help you feel it.
Just the peace,
Peace,
And the love and compassion and the fullness of the silence within.
Bless your dear hearts.
