In silence, experience and the meaning are one. We’re not thinking about the experience, we are not investigating the meaning, but the experience and the meaning are one. Which can also I think explain why the words peace and joy are so frequent in the New Testament. That’s exactly what we discover. What are the signs of this state, this union of experience and meaning? It is that we feel joyful and we feel peaceful. Julian of Norwich gives us an understanding of that too. She said:
Of all the things we may do for God in our penitence [she sees life as penitence, purification, preparation, so of all the things we may do for God in our penitence] the most honouring to him is to live gladly and gaily because of his love.
