Most organized religions have taken on the task of explaining God to their congregations, including all of the rules that God supposedly has laid out for humankind. However, you cannot come to know God through the experiences or testimony of others. This must be done by you. Today, through further exploration of meditation and silence, we are going to discover how to make conscious contact with God.
I teach a meditation, which I describe in detail and guide you through with my voice, in a CD called Meditations for Manifesting (for more details see the Related Titles at the end of the book). This meditation uses the sound of ahhhh as a mantra to keep your thoughts from wandering during the morning meditation. This mantra sound is in virtually all names of the Divine. Listen for it, for example, in God, Yahweh, Allah, Krishna, Jehovah, Ra, and Ptah. By repeating this mantra sound, you make conscious contact with God. The evening meditation uses the sound of om, the sound of gratitude for all that has manifested in your life. Repeating the sound of ahhhh in the morning and om in the evening for approximately 20 minutes creates an opportunity for you to experience inner peace and success in a way you may have never known before. I urge you to meditate because it will bring you more peace, remove stress, improve your surroundings, and deflect negativity. All of this and more will definitely show up when you meditate on a regular basis.
When you merge into the silence and become one with it, you also reconnect to your source and know the peacefulness that some call God. “Be still and know that I am God,” says it so beautifully in the Psalms of the Old Testament. The key words here are still and know.
Be still actually means silence. Mother Teresa described silence and its relationship to God by saying, “God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, grass—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence . . . We need silence to be able to touch souls.” This includes your soul!
The second word in the Old Testament observation, know, refers to making your personal and conscious contact with God. To know God is to banish doubt and become independent of others’ definition and description of God. Instead, you have your own personal knowing. And as Melville reminded us so poignantly, “God’s one and only voice is silence.”
Your sense of inner peace depends on spending some of your life energy in silence to recharge your battery, remove tension and anxiety, reacquaint yourself with the joy of knowing God, and feel closer to all of humanity.
God is that which is indivisible. There’s only one omnipresent presence called God. This presence is everywhere and is a force that creates and sustains life. It can never be divided or cut up into pieces. There’s only one power in the universe, not two. Everything in your experience as a human being appears to be in duality, however. Up exists because of its opposite, down. Light exists because of dark; right exists because of wrong. You’ve never seen a person with a front who doesn’t have a back; an outside without an inside; a north pole of a magnet without a south pole. Our physical world is a world of dichotomies and combinations of opposites, always divisible.
Silence, however, is the one experience you can have that’s indivisible. You cut silence in half, and all you get is more silence. There’s only one silence. Therefore, silence is your one way to experience the oneness and the indivisibility of God. This is how you know God rather than having to settle for knowing about God. This is why you want to meditate. Meditation seems to bring me into contact with a source of soothing energy that makes me feel deeply connected to God.
You will find your answers in the silence. Remember: It’s out of the void, the emptiness, that everything is created. When you write a musical note, the silence from which it comes is just as much a part of the note as is the sound. So it is with healing any thing or any relationship. Going into the quiet and listening will inspire you. I can’t imagine speaking or writing without first going to God in silence. I seek alone time and space to allow my inspiration to emerge.
Everything that you wish to manifest emerges from Spirit, from the silence. You don’t use your ego to manifest. In fact, ego can inhibit the creative process. For this reason, I urge you not to divulge your private insights, what you intend to create. As St. Paul said, “That which is seen, hath not come from that which doth appear.” When you talk about your emerging manifesting ideas and relate your insights to others, you often feel the need to explain and defend them. What happens is that ego has entered. Once the ego is present, the manifesting stops.
Silence is where manifesting occurs, so keep your potential miracles in the treasured silence that you embrace as often as possible. You can rely upon it and enjoy basking in the serenity and inner peace that silence and meditation always bring.