10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace: Fourth Secret
February 25, 2010 by dr. lam
Fourth Secret: “Embrace Silence”
Our modern culture is brimming with noise: cell phones, email, loud rock concerts, 5.1 surround movies, screaming children, bickering spouses, and other ringing types of cacophony. When we still our hearts and our mind for a moment, we can tap into our creative soul, refresh our spirits, and find God. The book of Psalms in the Old Testament says, “Be still, and know that I am God”. Mother Theresa said that God dwells in the world of silence as evident by just looking at the stars and the moon and the quiet growth of green grass. We can find divinity in quiet, meditative moments.
If we do not have programmed times for meditation, we can always steal a moment of silence when possible. Dyer talks about quieting his energy and embracing the silence at a stopped traffic light. Those 2 to 3 minutes can offer a respite and a revitalization rather than what it typically does, which is annoyance through our impatience. We can sit silently at these unappointed moments to work ourselves into a more peace and enlightened state.
Dyer says there is no such thing as a bad meditation. Any meditation can be a time for us to achieve quiet healing in our body, our heart, and our mind. Just writing these blogs silently on my flight to San Diego for my Fall meeting is already a type of quiet meditation. We all can find that peace through a tranquil retreat into silence, no matter how brief or trivial that moment may appear to be at the time.
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I love that picture!!! Great blog! I do however think there can be bad meditations, but not disagreeing just thinking.
Like someone could be meditating on hatred, envy, etc., and that would be bad. Just thinking here. 
Great blog! So true about us needing to be silent and meditate.
hmmm, that is a broad definition of meditation. when i say meditation, i mean just a quiet time to stop and to achieve peace and quiet. i did not mean it exactly to mean “meditate” as in think about something but as “meditate” to be in a quiet apartness of the mind and body. thanks for the comment though!
lol Thanks, Dr. Lam!