The Language of the Spirit

“To learn to meditate, you have to learn to be silent, and not to be afraid of silence. [. . . .] [W]e don’t have to create silence. The silence is there, within you. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit. The language of the spirit is love. And the purpose of meditation is to be in the presence of love, the love that, as Jesus tells us, casts out all fear.” From John Main OSB, “The Way of Silence” in The hunger for depth and meaning: Learning to meditate with John Main (Singapore: Medio Media, 2007)