It’s easy to be silent and still on a silent retreat.
However, after I finished my silent retreat, I soon found, of course, that it’s more difficult to slow down after I’ve looked at my daily to-do list. I have to carve out moments of peace during each day.
I remember what Thoreau once wrote:
“I think there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.”
–Joy
