to be silent!

we must not allow any desire to speak in our heart, because truth suffers no rivals.

he who selects wisdom for the bride of his soul must love her with his whole heart and dismiss the concubines from the bridal chamber of his soul. he must cloth her in the purity of his affection and ornament her with the gold of his love, for wisdom is modest, she does not adorns herself but waits until she is adorned by her lover. she cannot be bought with money nor with promises, her love is only gained by act of devotion. he who sacrifice all his being to wisdom will be united with her.

he who think constantly of wisdom, his mind undiverted by any other object, will find her. she will at all times be easily found by a constant devotion of her.

how can i succeed in arriving at that supernatural life, in which i may see and hear the supreme ?
if you can only for a moment enter in thought into the formless, where no creature resides, you will hear the voice of the supreme.

is this far or near ?
it is in yourself, and if you can command only for one hour the silence of your desire, you will hear the inexpressible words of the supreme. if your own will and self are silent in you, the perception of the eternal will be manifest through you ; the creator will hear, and see, and talk through you ; unite your mind with the formless and infinite.

it is easier to allow one's mind to revel among the multi-farious forms and attractions of the material plane, than to enter the apparently dark caves of the formless, where at first no sound is heard in the eternal stillness of night but the echo of our voice, but where alone power resides. it is easier to let our minds be controlled by thoughts that come and go without our bidding than to hold fast to a thought and command it to remain, and to close the doors of the soul to all thoughts that have not the seal of truth impressed upon their forms.

to be silent means to let no other language be heard within the heart but the language of the supreme, to listen to the voice of divine wisdom speaking within the heart; but this state will be arrived at only after the storm of passions, and the battles of desires, and the conflict of the intellectual forces is over.

he who has learned to know, to will, to dare, and to be silent, is upon the true path that leads to immortal life, and will know how to practice interior meditation.