To keep with today's theme of taking a vacation from your

self, aka recognizing the silence within yourself, recognizing the place inside that's always on vacation and remember inside, it's not a direction, it's a dimension, that's that guru, this vacation, this energy of vacation is always here and it sounds like silence.

And so I want to read you a gorgeous passage from Ava Bellwerber's book The Journey with the Master and it's appropriately titled Silence, so get comfortable and close your eyes if you can.

And come into this moment, fully. Be present, fully, fill love, fully. Don't try to fill love. Notice it's already here.

That gentle vibration in your feet, that energy in your hands, in your legs, in your head, it's making your face smile.

This felt love is union, its prayer words are not needed here.

Supplication is not needed here, nothing is needed here, but the recognition that God is here.

Love is here, it's so close that it is you, which means it knows your deepest desires, it knows what you need.

Trust, trust it, relax into it, you can only relax if you're trusting. Relax and listen to these words from Ava Bellwerber.

Many words and much speaking do not denote consciousness. In the higher realms of consciousness where I am guiding you day by day, there's much silence.

There's much power in silence, none in mere loud clamor. Silence is power.

As you go about your work on the physical plane, learn to put this precept into practice. Be silent when you sense a disagreement of others with your teachings.

Be silent that you confuse them not. Be silent when it would be but idle chatter for you to speak. Learn to conserve energy for the time when the words spoken by me through you shall bear fruit.

This lesson is not an easy one. It's so much easier to lend yourself to idle conversation, which profiteth no one anything.

As you climb a high mountain in the outer world, you find that as you go higher, you talk less and waste no strength in idle gestures, for you need all your strength to make the ascent.

So it is with the climbing soul into the higher altitudes of spiritual consciousness. You find you will need times for quietness or opposed with me and you will often withdraw from clamor and confusion and give it not of your attention.

You will keep your poise quietly, gently, both within the soul's depths and outwardly in your physical expression.

You will waste no soul strength nor physical energy. At all times hold in reserve the qualities of power which I have given to you.

Be still in our union of love and I promise you in time of need that when it is necessary for you to use this strength, you will have an unlimited supply.

Remember this, my beloved, for today and all days, much empty speaking only tends to add to body consciousness and decreases consciousness of the soul.

Without soul consciousness, you flounder about and all the ills and misfortunes, the mistakes and confusion of the mere physical being.

Go on about your tasks but never fail to turn often to me to renew your strength with the quietness of my presence.

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