You can listen to silence, Reuven.
I’ve begun to realize that you can
listen to silence and learn from it.
It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
It talks to me sometimes.
I feel myself alive in it.
It talks. And I can hear it.
…
You have to want to listen to it,
and then you can hear it.
It has a strange, beautiful texture.
It doesn’t always talk.
Sometimes – sometimes it cries,
and you can hear the pain of the world in it.
It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.
~From THE CHOSEN by Chaim Potok

Be still and listen to the rhythm of your beating heart.

Be still and feel the in and out movement of your breath.

Be still and find the peace at the center of your being.

Be still and seek the presence of your inner child.

Be still and remember childhood’s simple pleasures.

Be still and recall the unadulterated innocence of a child

Be still and let joy now bubble up from gratitude for the gift of life.

And finally in the silence of your thankfulness be still and listen so that you hear the Lord calling you by name.

Be still, and know that I am God… ~Excerpt from Psalm 46:10  ✝

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