23rd December, 2022
Sr. Wendy Beckett, Meditations on Silence (Dorling Kindersley, 1995), 14.
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The short image-backed quote, above, is taken from the longer quotation, below, from Sister Wendy Beckett's Meditations on Silence (Dorling Kindersley, 1995), 12 & 14. You can read more about this book by clicking here.
'Life seems simpler if we blot out awareness of its mystery, but such a life is an impoverished one. … Who can ever understand the meaning of events that make up our conscious experience – in relationships, in business, or whatever? But the swirl of events are the context wherein is held the gate. It is a real but shadowy presence, a way through, a possibility. If we allow silence to open up within, we shall see the gate and be free to open it. … The gate that silence opens up within us leads to light. Light exposes with an almost merciless radiance and, in the exposure, reveals the beauty of the real.'