The Silence Between Thoughts

Listen... To your thoughts. [Long pause] Don't stop them. Don't change them. Just... Listen. One appears. Then another. Then another. [Long pause] But listen... Carefully. Between... One thought... And the next... There is... Something else. A space. [Long silence] Did you disappear... During that space? [Very long pause] Think... I AM. Now wait. [Long silence] Before another thought arrives... Are you... Gone? Or are you still... Here? [Warm drone slowly emerges] We spend so much... Of our lives... Listening... To the voice... Inside the mind... That eventually... We begin to believe... The voice... Is us. But you can hear... The voice. You can notice... When it begins. You can notice... When it stops. So... What is present... When the voice... Isn't? Perhaps... You've experienced it. Watching... A sunset. Holding... Someone you love. Standing... Before something... So beautiful... That for one moment... There were... No words. You didn't disappear. Perhaps... For that moment... You were more present... Than ever. Before the mind said... Beautiful... There was seeing. Before the mind said... Love... There was feeling. Before the mind said... God... There was... What? Scripture says... "Be still... And know... That I am God." We often notice... The word... God. But perhaps... There is another word... Worth noticing. Still. Be... Still. Not... Believe. Not... Explain. Not... Define. Not even... Understand. Be still... And know. Could knowing... Exist... Before thinking? Could Being... Exist... Before... The thought... About Being? Before you think... I AM... Is there already... I AM? Don't answer. Because the answer... Would be... Another thought. Instead... There. Did you notice it? And if you thought... Yes... That came... After. Perhaps silence... Is not... Nothing. Perhaps... It only seems empty... Because there are... No words... Inside it. And perhaps... What you are... Doesn't need... Words... To be. So listen... Not for... The next thought. Listen... To what is here... Before it comes. What... Is present... Between... Your thoughts? Don't name it. Don't hold it. Don't even try... To understand it. Just... Notice... What remains. [Silence]