This year, we planted seeds indoors in a tray during February to see if they would sprout. We attached a grow light above the little seeds and a warming mat beneath them.
When timing the grow light, it said in the directions: plants need darkness to grow.
And as I researched tips and tricks online, there it was: it's during the dormant nighttime hours that plants accomplish most of their growth for the next day.
Now April, I am often out in my garden preparing beds and planting seeds for the coming season. I will pause during my planting and take time to feel the silence of the seeds newly pressed into the earth, and the baby trees establishing their roots in the side yard, and the new grass covering the bare patches in the lawn. Through the heart, we feel all the subtle energy of growing things. Plants grow in silence, plants live in silence. Most of the life on this planet grows and exists in complete silence. When I sit with my dog and my cat indoors, we sit in silence, on the floor or on the couch, together, no other interaction necessary.
And when we are together, I think to them, Do you remember when we used to be One? Before the body, before this life, when we were all just an ocean of purity.
In Heaven, there is a great and powerful silence, and all communication begins and ends through the heart.
Souls are no different than seeds. The soul needs silence to grow. It is during the darkness and the quiet that we settle deeper into ourselves. Take a man out of society for three days, place him in isolation in the wilderness, and he will run back to the city, unable to sit with himself. It is the man who can sit in silence who is the spiritual man.
If we cannot sit with God, we cannot live with God.
This haven in the Heart where the Mother dwells is an oasis of the silence of growing things.
