Where Words Stop

Sit at your home altar, or in any quiet hour of the day. Slowly speak a few sacred words aloud, a verse you know by heart, a name of the divine, a single line you love. Then go silent. Sit absolutely still. Do not speak the next line, even mentally. Stay at the place where the words have just stopped and silence is opening. Notice that the silence is not absence of speech. It is what speech was always pointing toward. Sit there, where language has finished its work and something deeper, with no need of words, has been quietly waiting all along.