Random Acts of Spirituality Day Nine

At once the simplest and the most daunting way of entering into a new 'spiritual space' is the practice of silence. We have filled the world with sound and image, noise and distraction - plugging ourselves into music, and movies, and podcasts, and talkshows, audiobooks, and so much more with the 'distraction machines' we carry in our pockets and purses.

It seems to many of us, including myself, that the act of sitting in silence is somehow unnatural - that we like to be occupied, we don't want to be bored  -in fact we don't really know what we will encounter if we do put away our phones and tablets and devices. Who will be be? What will we do?

The discipline and liberation of silence is that we can discover who we are, we will perhaps encounter ourselves, and more terrifying encounter the Divine - within and around us. If it does seem too much, perhaps try just a few moments of silence, of making space, of settling ourselves and just 'being'. Then as we grow more comfortable, we can extend those silent and still times so that we know the liberation of silence.