Silence is a source of great strength. ~Lao Tzu (6th-5th BCE)

All too often, we are bombarded by noise and distraction. So much so, that we cannot even hear ourselves think. When we are quiet, people will nonchalantly ask us what’s wrong, but not care to hear the answer. Or even worse, not believe us when the answer is, “nothing is wrong”.

Silence equates to uncomfortable to many people. Since their worlds are so full of noise, the thought of silence frightens them. It frightens them because it forces them to confront the fact that their lives are a pseud, a shell. No one wants the walls they carefully built up to be torn down – yet silence is more than capable of this.

The strength that it takes to stand in the silence, with no walls, to be comfortable, is not easily achieved. Everything that has been oppressed over the years must be dealt with. All those things that you have yet to reconcile that has sat in the back of your mind is now front and center. And finally, to be near someone else standing strongly in the silence is the greatest feat of all.

Silence is a source of great strength, especially in the vicinity of someone else, because it means you have nothing to fear and nothing to hide. The are no secrets, no walls, no boundaries. When you can stand in the silence with someone else, you know.

You know that you have found The One.