17th December, 2022
Robert Sardello, Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2008), 23.
Image: Fabrizio Conti, Italy, conti.photos.com
The short image-backed quote, above, is an extract from a longer quotation, below, taken from Robert Sardello's Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness (North Atlantic Books, 2008), 23 & 25. You can read more about this book by clicking here.
'We must approach Silence in the right way and with the right attitude, which is not the attitude that says look at all the good, all the virtue, all the merit, all the deepening, all the creativity, peace, sensitivity, and ability to be more present in the world that we will get out of practicing Silence. We do not enter the realm of silence for ourselves but to honor, give attention to, care for, give homage to and acknowledge the sacredness of the realm, and to gradually come to know its terrain with a decidedly different kind of knowing. Otherwise, our interest is no more than ego inflation. Silence must be recognised and honored as a holy and autonomous realm. We can easily become interested in Silence for what we think it can give us. But, in the face of its true reality, we are continually humbled.'
'We must approach Silence in the right way and with the right attitude, which is not the attitude that says look at all the good, all the virtue, all the merit, all the deepening, all the creativity, peace, sensitivity, and ability to be more present in the world that we will get out of practicing Silence. We do not enter the realm of silence for ourselves but to honor, give attention to, care for, give homage to and acknowledge the sacredness of the realm, and to gradually come to know its terrain with a decidedly different kind of knowing. Otherwise, our interest is no more than ego inflation. Silence must be recognised and honored as a holy and autonomous realm. We can easily become interested in Silence for what we think it can give us. But, in the face of its true reality, we are continually humbled.'