January 21 to
February 21
Whoever has
experienced the imperishable nature of one’s own true being becomes silent,
discrete.
True
discretion is the biblical metanoia, the change of attitude, also called
repentance. For the opposite of repentance is the surrender to the senses. The
immortal power of courage that forms the core of our being loses in the
surrender to the senses, in external communication, consciousness of itself. By
turning back, however, it becomes self-aware. Maintaining silence is therefore
gathering strength. It shrouds the spiritual in us that is neither communicable
in the images of the physical world and its speech, nor audible to the outward
listening ear. Silence is the protection that retains the spiritual as an
inviolable secret of the soul. Discretion is worthy to be the bearer of this
mystery. It does not disappoint the trust placed in it by the spiritual world and
the human beings, since it adopts this trust into the soul realm guarded by
this turning back (of our desirous nature). Discretion is the power by which
the soul grasps and experiences itself as belonging not to the world of the
senses but to the world of the spirit.
Thus it becomes meditative power
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