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Silent practice is so much more than not talking. Even though simply fasting from words is profound- just like with food, allowing remnants to digest themselves, making space to more intentional choices to be made so that we speak when the “words improve on the silence.” there is more to silence than fasting from words. 

Silence is not what it sounds like. Heraclitus called what we find in silence, ‘The Hidden Harmony.’ Lao Tzu called it “The Tao,” and Moses ‘the still small voice.’ Jesus called it ‘the peace, that passes understanding.”

We can’t say what we find in the silence. There are no words to match it. What we can say is how it begins. It begins with a softening and beginning to be with everything e x a c t l y as its is. Each thought that comes.

Every emotion.

Noise.

Just as it is. Dissolving it into Now. 

Noise is actually helpful in our silent practice. We can “use the noise” as fuel, fodder, to feed eternity’s flame.

( This is not metaphor but practice. Not only a practice but a description of what happens. Enrobe .)