I originally thought of naming this site, Silence Speaks which is so far the most often used tag and category I have on all my blogs. But the words, dreams and escapes have their own meaning in my life, so they got stuck, hence the title Dreams and Escapes.
Sometimes, we wish we could change things in our lives, but it does not work that way. Everything is destined, everything is planned. It is not just something that happens to you, in a lifetime, not even in a heartbeat. For the past few months or so, most of the time, I’ve been alone with my thoughts, some are happy ones, some humorous, some quite fearful thoughts of what lies ahead. Slowly, I am beginning to learn and embrace silence in my life. I told Lovell, a close friend, that lately I am getting bored with my own thoughts and company but I am beginning to love silence. Then he wrote back, “Ha, ha! Mongha na“. I had a good laugh when I read that one.
I wish to share with you a few words taken from No Man Is an Islands, by Thomas Merton, who they say is arguably the most influential Catholic author of the 20th century.
Silence does not exist in our lives merely for its own sake. It is ordered to something else. Silence is the mother of speech. We receive Christ’s silence into our hearts when we first speak from our heart the word of faith. Silence is the strength of our interior life.
There must be a time of day when the man of prayer goes to pray as if it were the first time in his life he has ever prayed; when the man of resolutions puts his resolutions aside as if they had all been broken, and he learns a different wisdom; distinguishing the sun from the moon, the stars from the darkness, the sea from the dry land and the night sky from the shoulder of the hill.
There must be a time of day when the man who has to speak falls very silent, and his mind forms no more than propositions, and he ask himself: did they have a meaning?
In silence, we learn to make distinctions. those who fly silence also fly from distinctions. They do not want to see clearly. they prefer confusion.
Slow down, befriend silence in your life. And when the pressure of making a living becomes greater than making a life, let silence speaks.
Dreams And Escapes 