From Mind's Silence to Heart's Silence

Two types of silence are explored: the silence of the mind – an absence of sounds and thoughts that is fragile and easily disturbed – and the silence of the heart, which lies behind both sounds and thoughts and their absence. This deeper silence is imperturbable, ever-present and peaceful. Using the metaphor of moving house, we are invited to leave our old home of cluttered thoughts and feelings for a new, spacious dwelling made only of being aware. Drawing on Meister Eckhart’s ‘huge silence that beckons’ and Rumi’s ‘ever-widening rings of being’, we are encouraged to sink into this heart-silence where our being, freed from borrowed qualities of experience, is revealed as the one infinite being from which all apparently borrows existence.