Daily Meditation: Friday, February 6, 2004

Silence - is a language

02/06/2004

Both noise and silence are languages. Silence is the language of perfection, while noise is the expression of something imperfect, of an anomaly, of an instinctive, disordered life which needs to be mastered and developed. For example, children are noisy because they are overflowing with energy and vitality. On the contrary, old people are silent. You will say, of course, that they are silent because their energy has diminished and because noise tires them. There is some truth in this, but it may also be that they have evolved, that they have gone deeper into themselves, and that it is their spirit which encourages them to be silent. In order to review their life, to reflect on it and to draw lessons from it, they need this silence in which a work of detachment, simplification and synthesis can be carried out. The pursuit of silence is an inner process which leads human beings towards the light and a true understanding of things.