In meditation time takes on a completely different quality and as Thomas Merton said ‘one really lives, even though nothing apparently happens at all’ . Through deep silence one becomes centred in the vertical and though we might not be conscious of it it is after all what really matters…

And silence is the greatest luxury in the world today and it is getting really hard to find…

Instead the constant sounds act as a brilliant distraction and avoidance of the one thing that really matters which is the search for spiritual identity and that can only take place in solitude and in silence…. sshh!