Practicing silence means making a commitment to take a certain amount of time to simply Be. Experiencing silence means periodically withdrawing from the activity of speech. It also means periodically with drawing from such activities as watching television, listening to the radio, or reading the book. If you never give yourself the opportunity to experience silence, this creates turbulence in your internal dialogue.

Set aside a little time every one in a while to experience silence. Or simply make a commitment to maintain silence for a certain period each day. You could do it for two hours, or if that seems a lot, do it for one hour period. And every and every one in a while experience silence for an extended period of time, such as full day, or two days, or even a whole week.

What happens when you go into this experience of silence? Initially your internal dialogue becomes even more turbulent. You feel an intense need to say things. I've known people who go absolutely crazy the first day or two when they commit themselves to an extended period of silence. A sense of urgency and anxiety suddenly comes over them. But as they stay with the experience, their internal dialogue beings to quieten. And soon the silence becomes profound. This is because after a while the mind gives up; it realizes there is no point in going around and around if you – the self, the spirit, the spirit, the choice maker – are not going to speak, period. Then, as the internal dialogue quitens, you begin to experience the stillness of the field of pure potentiality.

Practicing silence periodically as it is convenient to you is one way to experience the law of pure potentiality. Spending time each day in meditation is another. Ideally, you should meditate at least thirty minutes in the evening. Through meditation you will learn to experience the field of pure silence and pure awareness. In that field of pure silence is the field of infinite correlation, the field of infinite organizing power, the ultimate ground of creation where everything is inseparably connected with everything else.

In the fifth spiritual law, the law of intention and Desire, you will see how can introduce a faint impulse of intention in this field, and the creation of your desire will come about spontaneously. But first, you have experience stillness is the first requirement for manifesting your desires, because in stillness lies your connection to the field of pure potentiality that can orchestrate an infinity of details for you.

Imagine throwing a little stone into a still pond and watching it ripple. Then, after a while, when the ripple settle down, perhaps you throw another little stone. That's exactly what you do when you go into the field of pure silence and introduce your intention. In this silence, even the faintest intention will ripple across the underlying ground of universal consciousness, which connects everything with everything else. But, if you do not experience stillness in consciousness, if your mind is like a turbulent ocean, you could throw the empire state Building into it, and you wouldn't notice a thing. In the bible is the expression, "Be still, and know that I am God." This can only be accomplished through meditation.

Another way to access the field of pure potentiality is through the practice of non-judgment. Judgment is the constant evaluation of things as right or wrong, good or bad. When you are constantly evaluating, classifying, labeling, analyzing, you create a lot of turbulence in your internal dialogue. This turbulence constricts the flow of energy between you and field of pure potentiality. You literally squeeze the "gap" between thoughts.

The gap is your connection of the field of pure potentiality. It is that state of pure awareness, that silent space between thoughts, that inner stillness that connects you to true power. And when you squeeze your connection to the field of pure potentiality and infinite creativity.

There is prayer in a course in miracles that states, "Today I shall judge nothing that occurs." Non-judgment creates silence in your mind. It is a good idea, therefore, to begin your day with that statement. And throughout the day, remind yourself judging. If practicing this procedure for the whole day seems too difficult, then you may simply say to your self, "For the next two hours, I will experience non-judgment." then you can extend it gradually.

Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the firs law, the law of pure potentiality. Once you start doing that, you can add a fourth component to this practice, and that is regularly spending time in direct communion with nature. Spending time in nature enables you sense that harmonious interaction of all elements and forces of life. Whether it be a stream, a forest, a mountain, a lake, or the seashore, that connection with nature's intelligence will also help you access the field of pure potentiality.

You must learn to get in touch with the inner most essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.

Access to your true essence will also give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself. For example, if you have guilty, fear, and insecurity over money, or success, or anything else, then these are reflections of guilty, fear, and insecurity over money or success, or anything else, then these are reflections of guilty, fear and insecurity as basic aspects of your personality. No amount of money or success will solve these basic problems of existence; only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing. And when you are grounded in the knowledge of your true self – when you really understand your true nature – you will never feel guilty, fearful, or insecure about money, of effluence, or fulfilling your desires, because you will realize that the essence of all material wealth is life energy, it is pure potentiality and pure potentiality is your intrinsic nature.

As you gain more and more access to your true nature, you will also spontaneously receive creative thoughts, because the field of pure potentiality is also the field of infinite creativity and pure knowledge. Franz Kafka, the Austrian philosopher and poet once said, "You need not leave your room. Remaining sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simple wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quite, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

The affluence of the universe – the lavish display and abundance of the universe – is an expression of the creative mind of the nature, the more you have access to its infinite, unbounded the turbulence of your internal dialogue to connect with that abundant, affluent, infinite, creative mind. And then you create a possibility of dynamic activity while at the same time carrying the stillness of the eternal, unbounded, creative mind. This exquisite combination of silent, unbounded, individual mind is the perfect balance of stillness and movement simultaneously that can create what ever you want. This coexistence of opposites – stillness and dynamism at the same time – makes you independent of situations, circumstances, people, and things.

When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy – the quantum soup, the non-material and non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world of energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal, and silent.

Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is the creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions – wherever the power of your attention takes you.

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never over shadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

Applying The Law of Pure Potentiality

I will put the law of Pure Potentiality into effect by making a commitment to take the following steps:

(1) I will get in touch with the field of pure potentiality by taking time each day to be silent, to be just Be. I will also sit alone in silent meditation at least twice a day for approximately thirty minutes in the evening.

(2) I will take each day to commune with nature and to silently witness the intelligence within every living thing. I will sit silently and watch a sunset, or listen to the sound of the ocean or a stream, or simply smell the scent of a flower. In the ecstasy of my own silence, and by communing with the nature, I will enjoy the life throb of ages, the field of pure potentiality and unbounded creativity.

(3) I will practice non-judgment. I will begin my day with the statement, "Today, I shall judge nothing that occurs," and throughout the day I willremind myself not ot judge.