Learning to Listen

Thomas Merton 

The Reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...  

Silence.

And the simple fact that by being attentive,

by learning to listen

(or recovering the natural capacity to listen)

we can find ourselves engulfed in such happiness

that it cannot be explained:

the happiness of being at one with everything

in that hidden ground of Love

for which there can be no explanations...

May we all grow in grace and peace,

and not neglect the silence that is printed

in the center of our being.

It will not fail us.

Previously posted in 2014, and sorry, but I do not know the source.