The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
Interpretation
In a noisy world, divine communication often feels absent, yet silence holds eternal significance.
Gertrud Von Le Fort's quote reflects on the contrast between the overwhelming noise of modern life and the profound silence attributed to the divine. It suggests that while the chaos and clamor of the world might drown out the presence of God, true understanding and connection with the eternal can be found in silence, which transcends the fleeting nature of worldly noise.
In practice
In a meditation workshop, emphasizing the importance of silence in spiritual practices.
You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
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