THE POWER OF SILENCE - Notes - PART A7 - SECRECY & TRUE WITNESSING

 I purchased The Power of Silence by Robert Cardinal Sarah back in 2017. Even after eight years, its pages - filled with profound wisdom - still wait to be fully read and understood.

I am not sure I will ever truly finish the book, let alone grasp the depth of each insight it offers.

Still, I hope that by taking notes and organizing them thoughtfully, I might begin to better comprehend and absorb the treasures it contains.

I am sharing these notes here, and I hope that the gems noted down may bless you as much as they continue to bless me.

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THE POWER OF SILENCE - NOTES

PART A - SILENCE VERSUS THE WORLD'S NOISE

(A7) SECRECY & TRUE WITNESSING

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The growing trend of habit of testifying in public to the divine graces granted in the innermost depths of a man's soul exposes him to the dangers of superficiality, the self-betrayal of his interior friendship with God, and vanity.

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Thomas Merton says,

The inviolability of one's spiritual sanctuary, the centre of the soul, depends on secrecy. 

Secrecy is the intellectual complement of a pure intention....eeping all good things secret even from yourself.

If we would find God in the depths of our souls, we hae to leave everybody else outside, including ourselves.

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It is disastrous, if we want to find God in our souls and to remain there with him, to try to communicate him to others as we see him. 

we could do so later with the grace that he gives us in silence, and by the influence and transparency of our life.

True witness is expressed by the silent, pure, radiant example of the sanctity of our life.

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