26. Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness

“There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.” ~ Meister Eckhart
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“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.” ~ Meister Eckhart
I am conditioned to look for God in places the Irish call “thin places”, places of beauty like rivers, mountains, forests, lake or ocean shores, gardens and so on. I am also conditioned to expect to hear God in the noise as if he were trying to complete with the chaos around us. We can hear his words, sometimes, in the wind or the falling of rain but God is truly in the silence. Where all else ends, only he remains even though he was always everywhere. The encounter him stillness is to have found a way to empty ourselves of our daily noises, concerns and questions. We stop talking. We stop listening. We stop waiting. We just encounter the stillness and know love and peace. I long for those moments. The promise of them haunt me.

The stillness can be found here and now even in the cacophony of life. The silence I seek is not in the material, physical world, it is the spaces inside where no other thing exists. Wow. That hurts my brain.