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Or walk w the pain while it strengthens my resolve to heal.

Sweet silence enters my whole being- physical, emotional, spiritual and ethereal - and more energy , hope & lightness & conviction that this too shall pass and we will conquer our challenged selves — return our selves to whole and continue on our path gathering with many many others like murmurations of sky dancing birds raising their wings to subtle winds that none can see , only fly into the rhythms of the breezes drifting down the valley floor.

Until my grandsons reached an age of reason I thought that I was giving them something useful, imparting wisdom.  But now I realize that all my efforts were an attempt only to impart knowledge, which from me they discount.  How can I help them to find wisdom? Silence is not the answer, because the roar of others is so loud, often with evil and banal content. Perhaps by exemplary conduct?  Look at me, I can say.  But will they see, hear, speak? Only in dialog does new truth, new insight emerge.  And perhaps wisdom.  

 For nearly 40 years I have been exploring the wisdom of The Tree of Life. Each of the Spheres on The Tree have a spiritual quality. The quality of Silence is the Spiritual Virtue of the 3rd Sphere. This sphere is also entitled "Understanding." I have come to call it "the deepest darkest place of the greatest light" - I think this is where St John of the Cross  was when he wrote "I was stunned and stammering...rising beyond all science."  The little piece of God each of us carries is held in that place - a memory of what one came here to do, one's response to human suffering, a discovery of the inevitability of one's own beauty - all that in an instant of eternity. I can see why Silence is a Spiritual Virtue, an appropriate response...as Silence is respect and honor to even a glimmer of that truth within.