Questions on the Quest: To Be Silent, or To Speak?
Often, the spiritual student is advised to remain silent regarding his or her own spiritual experiences, at least until they have been ripened by time and experience.
On the other hand, we need to share with one another what we experience, to create a community of conscious seeking. We need to support each other in our quests. We need to exercise discernment in how we regard spiritual experiences and “facts” that are communicated to us. I feel that humanity as a whole is across the threshold, and many are “splashing about the spiritual world like toddlers.” Let us not be ashamed of our childish enthusiasm for exploration! Many people are having spiritual experiences of the most varied kinds, including Imaginations, Inspirations, and some Intuitions. While one’s spiritual research results can’t be completely reliable until one has achieved repeatable Intuitions, this does not mean that there is no value to what one experiences on the journey. We can help each other with discernment, with encouragement, with inspiration!
Silence can form a chalice that receives the Spirit.
The Quest involves Questions
What is worth speaking ? What is the value in what is unspoken?
How can you find the Truth if you do not Love it? How can you find Love if you are not Truthful?
There is so much that is unspoken; it is a vast realm. We must listen carefully, and inquire. Ask the Parsifal question…
Silence seals the lips. There is a great sweet waterfall of blessing that lives in the blanket of silence. In silence, things can shimmer in their natural state, without the outer maya that becomes entangled when we think and judge and speak.
To love truth deeply, this is a courageous and sublime act! Be ready to strip aside all one’s mistaken assumptions, petty self importance, and attachments. Be ready to jump into the void and trust that a power will come that will bear one aloft…
True love truly sees, truly comprehends, truly infuses. I feel it is something that we just begin to develop. To be open as an infant to the nurturer, as the flower to the sun. To stand naked in spirit, with all our multitudinous faults spread before us in the eyes of angels. Then, to stand in this utter naked transparency, and bring our own light of love to shine upon what we can illumine, what we can let live in the pregnant emptiness we have created for the other to inhabit.
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