' Fear of Silence '...

“When there’s a moment of no sense of ‘me,’ why not leave it alone completely, come what may?

When a fearful thought or feeling arises in an instant, it can also be gone in an instant, even before it has triggered the thirty thousand chemicals throughout the body.

There is just a vulnerable being exposed, alone, without knowing, without a word.

Maybe it’s a moment of dying to all the impulses to know, to protect, to maintain, to continue.

Not knowing is dying.

And at the same time being wholly alive.”



--Toni Packer, from The Light of Discovery, “Fear of Silence”