… silence is of eternity.

Thomas Carlyle, in Sartor Resartus

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Silence is sacred for it is eternal in its nature.  It brings rest, detachment that immerses one in eternity.  Silence is of God.  It is the altar of the Holy One.  It is peace.  It is interior. It is the Divine in the interior and all about – now in the instant, and forever.

We live mostly in what is not silence.  We dine on noise and distraction as if only the bravest ones can endure silence.  Yet we know silence before birth and are made for silence in the end.  It follows that there is a safe harbor in silence.  A boat at anchor in a quiet cove is silence, the silence of peace and the night sleep in full quiet … even the waves lapping the boat seem to honor silence in their softness – the compliment to silence.

Silence grows the heart and coaxes wisdom to the surface.  It is the climate of humility, the home of identity – the way to the True Self and God’s Holy Place.

Keep silence.  It gives you life in the full.

Shalom.

Isn’t it ironic that former President Obama gets expensive Secret Service protection and yet the guys at Benghazi got no help when they were out-numbered and under brutal attack which took their lives.  This is the divide between the privileged and everyone else.

Exoneration?  News reports assert that FBI Director James Comey wrote and circulated a memo within the ranks of the FBI that exonerated Hillary Clinton before all the witnesses were contacted and the FBI “interviewed” Mrs. Clinton.  If true, this would be a devastating indication of how Washington functions for those on the inside.  One hopes this is not the case.