Get More Out of Life with Silence

Silence is a valuable constituent of the game of life. Silence is the key that has the potential to open doors. It can free us of confusion. Silence empowers us to think things through and come up with solutions because it is only in silence we can listen well. We can listen to the deepest wisdom of our soul.In the absence of silence, we tend to get overtaken by the mind and the body, and emotions. The clutter prevents us from listening to our psyche and soul.

To listen to our psyche, our soul, our divinity, we need to establish a strong relationship with silence, without it we might remain unaware of many things. When we live on the surface, the noise is overpowering.It may be interesting to carry out a small experiment with our life. When people go to a secluded place free of distractions and when they sit in silence and observes them, they find that, in that silence, they are beginning to get to know themselves.

The ambience of quiet engenders the exercise of looking within. The life we have designed and created, the life most of us live, is an outer life. This outer life is a very beautiful world; we have created it with our consciousness. However, the inner world is even better, more powerful, stronger, greater and bigger. As it is said, “whatever exists in the universe outside also exists inside you.” The whole universe, and maybe more, exists inside us. With our limited mental, vital and physical capacities we are able to become a little bit aware of the outer world, but by bringing alive our inner world we can know much more. We wish for possible happiness and success and it’s the inner world that has the capacity to open many more possibilities for us.

Right now, we enjoy travelling. This is a possibility, we take decisions on the basis of the possibilities of a peaceful, joyful, harmonious, healthy, mindful and clear life, without any kind of insecurity or fear, pain, sufferings, worries. That is the desire, the aspiration every one of us nurtures. If we are searching for those possibilities in the outer world it is not possible, because the outer world has different kinds of possibilities also. It can give every comfort we ask for, but with every comfort, there comes some discomfort too. With any outer joy, pain will also be there. With any outer happiness, unhappiness would come too. Anything that comes from the outer world, comes with its opposite in tow.

Right now, we experience life as it’s limited to the physical existence because we experience life only through our five senses. Sense organs can only experience that which is physical. They cannot experience anything beyond that. Now let’s try to take some time off every day to be silent, even if for five or 10 minutes. Let us feel it, experience it, and observe it. That can be a moment when you are with you, when you available to yourself. When you are in silence you are living in the present, which we don’t do very often.

Silence does not mean absence of speech. Silence is an inner state. Something will automatically change in your state, in your nature, and silence will establish itself. Even if you are in a catastrophe, no one can destroy your silence; no one can take the inner quiet away from you. Once silence starts helping you, helping your evolution, then you may get more out of life.Silence is a state of consciousness. Silence is not an effort. If you are making an effort to be silent you are making more noise. Silence is an effortless effort. It will be born spontaneously with our understanding. Silence is the birthplace of our soul.

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