May the blessing of light be on you,   
light outside, light inside.   
May the blessed sunlight shine upon you   
and warm your heart till it glows   
like a great fire, so that the stranger   
may be warmed at it, as well as the friend.   
And may the light shine upon your eyes   
like a candle set in the window,   
bidding the wanderer in out of the storm.
In silence we discover ourselves, our actual presence to the life in us and around us. When we are present, deeply attentive, we cannot be busy controlling. Instead we become beholders -- giving ourselves up to the mystery of things. We become more willing to let things be. And, as a consequence we can also let ourselves be.
Through silence our days are illumined -- like rooms filled with light -- so we may inhabit our lives.