Solitude + Silence = Serenity

So I have started reading this blog a few months ago and recently I found this post that i copied for you all below. It blessed me greatly. everything in bold is a direct copy and paste, some of it is peiced together from multiple entries on the same topic. most of it though comes from the date below.

6/22/2004
In another blog previously, i believe i quoted a saying that said "solitude is the furnace of transformation", but i have learned through the course of this week that i believe that it is not only solitude, but silence. try going one hour with no phone, no computer, no music, no talking, no internet, just you and serenity. Jesus spent 40 days in the desert, let us follow his example and spend an hour in our own wilderness. i don't think many of you will try it because a lot of us are afraid of the outcome... your afraid of what you might hear in the still, yourself. others will start, they will get away into the woods, and then 10 minutes into it their mind will begin to wander and think of 110 other things they should be doing, and 10 minutes after that return home to reply to that email or return that "urgent call". but if you succeed in going an entire hour of silence, not saying one word, in solitude, i think you will find one thing easier to discover...yourself.

On this topic of silence and solitude Wayne Dyer adds this... "It has been estimated that the average person has sixty thousand separate thoughts each and every day. The problem with this is that we have the same sixty thousand thoughts today that we had yesterday, and we'll repeat them again tomorrow. our minds are filled with the same chatter day in and day out. learning to be quiet and meditate involves figuring out a way to enter the spaces between your thoughts... in this silent empty space between your thoughts you can find a sense of total peace in a realm that is ordinarily unknowable."
spend some time alone, get inbetween your thoughts.

I had the oppertunity to spend the afternoon in the park when I remembered this blog. So I took away all the distractions wandered far enough away from the path to find silence and sat. It was wonderful! not everything i discovered was flattering or happy, but it was definitely a great way to disconnect from everything in the world and see some perspective on who you are. THEN bring your prayers before God. It becomes another prayer entiely! at least for me...

anyway, like I said I hope this blesses you like it blessed me. time to go to bed now! :)