It is the stillness within meeting the stillness without. In that space beyond time, all truth can be found, beyond even a whisper.

It is only from within the realms of silence that the heart can speak. For in silence, all that is false falls away, and love becomes the only voice that remains.

We spend our lives trying to name what cannot be named. The deeper the truth of the heart, the more impossible it becomes to shape into words. Love—pure, undivided, beyond the edges of self—cannot be spoken of without being diminished. Each word is a veil; each description a soft distortion.

When we attempt to speak the language of love, we translate silence into sound, and something essential is always lost. Words, by nature, divide and define; love dissolves boundaries. In trying to give it voice, we pull it down from its natural element—silence—and into form, where it no longer belongs.

This is why, even with the best intentions, expressing the heart’s truth often leaves a trace of conflict. We sense the distance between what we mean and what is heard, between what the heart knows and what the tongue can say.

To bridge that distance, we must learn to rest again in silence. Not the silence of withholding, but the living silence from which love itself arises. In that quiet, there is no need to explain, no need to reach. There, connection is already complete.

For the heart speaks not in words, but in presence.

And in that presence, love is perfectly understood.

Nigel Lott teaandzen.org

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