Silence and selfhood

Silence is necessary for our selfhood to emerge; for our own true self to emerge out of the chaos – out of the turbulence of feeling the history of pain, loss and fantasy, of memory, the whole chaos, the jungle of our mind. And the older we get, the more of the jungle there may be. Before we can even begin to appreciate what one’s true self means, we have to enter into a deeper commitment to this work of silence, and then we begin to discover what silence does.