Living Silence.
Silence is not emptiness – it is simply another rhythm.
Sometimes nothing moves. No progress, no signs, no change – the world seems stopped, and we with it. Bella's answer is an image you can actually use: sit on a bench at the edge of the forest and watch. First everything looks frozen. Then a squirrel runs by, a drop slides off a leaf, a butterfly lands.
That's principle seven of this whole way, in her own words: the still stretch isn't a gap in the process – it is the process, and something is already happening in it. Surfing the Ocean of Truth says it with waves: between them, standing on the board is pointless – you wait, and the waiting belongs to the riding.
Three minutes of reading, one bench for later. Trust the silence.
🌸 The silence in which everything is alive.
Sometimes it seems to us the world has stopped.
Nothing is happening. We’re frozen.
We're lost.
But silence is not emptiness.
It is simply another rhythm.
If you sit on a bench by the forest and just look around –
at first it seems everything has gone still.
But there – a squirrel ran past.
There – a drop slid off a leaf.
There – a butterfly landed on a blade of grass.
Things keep happening.
Life hasn't stopped.
It continues – quietly, in its own way.
It's the same inside us.
Even when it seems everything has frozen,
that nothing is changing –
in truth something is already happening.
We don't always see it with our eyes.
But the soul knows.
Sometimes all that's needed
is simply to sit for a while on that inner bench
and trust the silence.
Thank you for reading.
If her words reached somewhere mine don't – good. That's what this blog is for. Take what fits and leave the rest.
– Jan