S. Wendy Becket

Silence is making-friends-with-time

S. Wendy Becket | September 2003 (Vol. XVI, No. 8)

Silence is making-friends-with-time. It does not fight it or waste it; it refuses to run after it. Silence floats free of time, letting the pattern of the moments unfold at its own pace... In silence we break the hold time has on us, and accept in practice that our true home is in eternity.

~ from MEDITATIONS OF SILENCE by S. Wendy Beckett

The capacity for silence

S. Wendy Becket | November 2001 (Vol. XIV, No. 10)

The capacity for silence — a deep creative awareness of one's inner truth — distinguishes us as human.

~ S. Wendy Beckett

A surrender to the holiness of the divine mystery

S. Wendy Becket | October 2001 (Vol. XIV, No. 9)

It is not outer reality that silence reveals, but our own innerness. Silence is essentially a surrender to the holiness of the divine mystery – whether we use these words or not. An atheist, calming his or her spirit in the peace of silence, is irradiated by the same mystery, anonymous but transforming. We are to listen. To what? To silence.

~ from MEDITATIONS ON SILENCE by S. Wendy Becket
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