What is silence?

What is silence?

Josefina Chacìn Ducharne

What is silence?

Have we really experienced it?

How many times we keep silence with our words

in the midst of an agitated sea of thoughts and desires.

Is this silence? ...NO

How many times we think to ourselves:

Ait is better to remain silent,@

but there remains a penetrating

little worm eating away in our stomach

that destroys relationships and separates us from others.

Is this silence? ...NO

How many times we keep our mouth shut

because of a fear of making a mistake

in breaking the silence,

worried about what others

might say about our remarks.

Is this silence? ...NO

The true silence is that which appears

when all activity of the mind ceases

and there remains the quiet stillness,

our receptivity before the empty void that fulfills us,

because it is an emptiness

that is filled by the presence of our true Essence,

the presence of God.