“Silence is sometimes the best answer.” ~ Dalai Lama
Indeed, it is.
I found myself yesterday, in just a small state of overwhelmed – my mind racing through the many millions of possibilities and ‘what if’ scenarios. And with each new path, these thoughts kicked up so many, many more emotions.
And, when I found myself in this place of ‘there’s really no other place left to go’ – I fell to my knees, and cried. I simply cried.
And in that crying, it seems, I let everything go.
I have always wondered why it is that we cry? Wondering over the human physiology of this emotional release, and perhaps even a few spiritual ‘how’s and ‘why’s.
But, as I lay in a crumpled mess on my floor – and, in that moment of sniffling in my very next breath…I realized, just how very silent everything had become.
And as awareness slowly slipped back into my spirit – the world around me came ‘alive’ once again.
I could hear the tick-tock-clicking of my favorite wall clock…and the gentle snore of a little pup nearby.
And with my next full breath, I heard… the birds fighting over the little bit of suet I had placed by my door… and the screech of the neighbor’s little girl who had just ‘discovered’ her first worm…
All of those little things, came to life again – with each new breath that I allowed to come in.
And just right then, I realized.. that…
Perhaps, even this crying is just a way for my mind to become still again?
Stillness speaks only when the mind is ready to listen.