#Hidden in silence series

They are the spiritual disciplines of solitude and silence, and they are vitally important to the health of the soul (and of society). Grant and Abraham Lincoln to Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt, to make history defining decisions. They are the spiritual disciplines that allowed many of the worldвЂ™s greatest leaders, from Ulysses S.

They are the spiritual disciplines that have been praised by poets and philosophers as diverse as Plato, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne, Rousseau, Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Muir, Tillich, and Camus (to name only a few). They are the spiritual disciplines through which prophets as varied as Moses, John the Baptist, Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad prepared for their ministries and received revelations that founded new religions. He no longer lives as a man.вЂќ -Thomas Merton If man is constantly exiled from his own home, locked out of his own spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person. For he cannot go on happily for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. When that inner voice is not heard, when man cannot attain to the spiritual peace that comes from being perfectly at one with his true self, his life is always miserable and exhausting. вЂњNot all men are called to be hermits, but all men need enough silence and solitude in their lives to enable the deep inner voice of their own true self to be heard at least occasionally.

The purposes and practices of these disciplines are approached in such a way that they can be adapted across belief systems.

#Hidden in silence series

Welcome back to our series on the spiritual disciplines, which explores exercises that can be used to train the soul.