The truths we don't want to hear, are often found in the silence we try to avoid.
I've been working harder on my meditation practice over the last couple of weeks, and I've realized that the thoughts that intrude are often the sign of areas of my life that are incomplete, unbalanced and requiring my attention.
Reflection requires focus, and too often we distract ourselves. We use media to distract us, serving others to justify us, our angers to persuade us, food to pacify us, and causes to absorb us.
All of these create a pathway of avoidance, while the silence that our heart requires to find peace is forever just out of reach.
We can strive to find truth in peace, or we can allow chaos to uncover it for us. Unfortunately, chaos usually brings pain as it's companion.
Listen in the silence to what your heart is trying to tell you, and act from there.
Dr. Alan Barnes
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