SILENCE SHARES --------------------------------------------------------------------------- child speaks: "my way is the right way, the only way" Silence shares: "NO right way or wrong way EXISTS" "DIFFERENT ways and INAPPROPRIATE ways exist" child speaks: "what i did was so wrong, i feel so guilty" Silence shares: "guilt prevents growth" "mistakes are LESSONS leading to APPROPRIATE future actions" child speaks: "how can you ever forgive me for doing what i did ?" Silence shares: "at the time of the action, FORGIVENESS CAME" "YOU have not forgiven YOURSELF, this is the DIFFICULTY" child speaks: "i am lost in this darkness" Silence shares: "darkness is MERELY the absence of LIGHT" "ALWAYS is the LIGHT within you, silence ACCESSES it" child speaks: "what books can i read and study to know" Silence shares: "the ocean of LIGHT is not reached by sailing down the river of words" "DIRECT EXPERIENCE experience brings KNOWING" child speaks: "i have material things, desires and needs,i like to be comfortable" "i want to give up everything and change" Silence shares: "NO THING must be given up" "only YOUR ATTACHMENT to it" child speaks: "Lord i want and need to be like you" Silence shares: "LOOK INSIDE !" "YOU ARE ME !"