Pilgrimage 3

As soon as I make the turn in the direction of Bad Teinach, I follow this path up towards the temple. It's nice to have the feeling of going "up" to the temple. As soon as I come upon this path, I try to calm down all the chatter in my head and to relax any tension that I might feel. It's amazing to just take a moment and hear all the turmoil and tumult inside...and let it go. To step on the path, to step into the silence...which is not empty, but FULL and waiting...

"At such moments we don't choose silence but fall silent. Silence, like love, is not something we reason our way into. And once we are in it, we recognize that it has been there all along. It's there like the background noise of the universe, that uniform hiss astronmomers find when they point their radio telescopes at the space between the stars, the remnant of the big bang, the residual wind of our origin."

-Philip Simmons-

"The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer."

-Swami Vivekananda-

"Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere---in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals."
-Mother Theresa-

"Nothing is so like God as silence."

-Meister Eckhart-