Face Everything And Rise!

The Power of Silence

Speech needs company, Silence needs solitude.

Speech wants to conquer others, Silence helps conquer oneself.
Speech makes friends or foes, Silence befriends all.
Speech demands respect, Silence commands it.
Speech is earth-bound, Silence is heaven-bound.
Speech educates, Silence exalts.
Speech is subjective, Silence is objective.
Speech has regrets, Silence has none.
Speech has limitations, Silence is boundless.
Speech needs effort, Silence a lot more.
Speech is human, Silence is Divine.
While speaking you are heard by creatures, In silence you hear the Creator
Silence leads to a stillness of the mind, then to introspection,
Then to self-cleansing, fnally to liberation.
The definite sign of a spiritually minded person is his silent,
tolerant attitude. Bees, until they have found the flower
and tasted the honey, make a loud, buzzing noise; but
the moment they taste the honey, they become absorbed
and cease to make a sound. So it is with us. Before we find
the truth, we argue and dispute and challenge others who
differ from us; but when we come in contact with
something deeper, we grow silent and do not try to force it
on other minds. We try to live it in our own life inevitably
it reaches other lives.

WITHOUT SILENCE,
WORD LOSES ITS MEANING AND
ACTION BECOMES EMPTY GESTURE.
-Henri Nouwen-
 “Modern man listens more
willingly to WITNESSES
than to teachers,
and if he does listen to teachers,
it is because they are witnesses.”
Pope Paul VI
 A BASIC PRAYER
Lord, my God, you created me because of your great love for me. Every
time I have responded to your love, I have experienced your life filling my heart
to overflowing. May I become more and more aware of how your unconditional
love has been sustaining me from the beginning up to this very moment of my
life.
Father, all the things that you have created, you have lovingly
presented to me as gifts, so that I may recognize you more easily in them –
everywhere, at all times, and offer you praise and thanksgiving.
Teach me to use these gifts wisely so as to deepen my love for you. Let
me not get carried away by their attractiveness or make them the main focus of
my life. For I desire to have you, Lord, as the center of my being. My goal in life
is to be with you forever.
Enable me, with your love and grace, to develop a heart and mind that
is so totally free as to take a balanced view of all reality. Let me not be unduly
preoccupied with either health or sickness, wealth or poverty, a long life or a
short one. Let me live by the conviction that everything you created and
anything that comes my way, can be for me a revelation of your love if I am
open to see you present everywhere.
Let me constantly choose only those things and persons which lead me
to you, and put away those that do not, so that I may experience your Spirit in
me in all its fullness, shaping me into the image of your Son. Amen.