What happens when I experience silence and stillness?
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outcome
"Silence and stillness are not mere absences; they are the overflowing presence that transforms you, refining love, beauty, and grace until they become your very essence."
According to Osho, encountering silence and stillness first appears as a mere absence of noise, but as you evolve it returns again and again with greater depth—shifting from a negative gap to a positive, overflowing presence that fills and transforms you. Each cycle refines love, beauty, and grace too, until, after many turnings, these qualities cease to be passing experiences and crystallize as your very being (enlightenment).
At first it’s just quiet, later it becomes a living, warm quiet that fills you and gradually becomes who you are.
Why this matters practically
- Reduces anxiety about losing feelings—everything returns deeper if you keep moving.
- Encourages steady practice and patience during quiet phases.
- Helps you recognize alive silence as guidance, not a void.
- Encourages steady practice and patience during quiet phases.
- Helps you recognize alive silence as guidance, not a void.
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