Silence

IThe soundless breath

After every act of creation,

there comes a soundless breath.

Not the end —

but a stillness so alive

that even light seems to pause and listen.

II“Be” — and it is

The universe, having said “Be,”

now simply is.

IIIGod breathes

In that silence,

God breathes.

And for the first time,

man neither asks nor speaks —

he simply knows.

IVThe veil

Rumi said:

“Speech is a veil between two silences.”

VThe word before words

Silence is the word before words,

the nothing from which every meaning is born.

Perhaps the secret of existence lies here —

in the space between light and darkness,

where there is no sound,

only pure awareness.

VIThe zero-point field

Physics tells us:

before every vibration,

there is a field of absolute stillness —

the zero-point field.

And maybe that is what mystics meant

by the peace before creation,

the moment when light has not yet chosen to shine.

VIIPresence

In silence we draw closest to God,

for He too creates in silence —

not with sound,

but with presence.

Every thought that rises from silence

is born from truth itself.

VIIIBetween two breaths

So let your words fall quiet,

that the real voice may be heard.

For sometimes,

the answer of the universe

resides in the stillness

between your two breaths.