Our spiritual awareness is developed in silence, not in thinking, listening, or reading. More of it can be developed in one minute of silence than in twenty-four hours of reading. For this reason, reading and studying are tools that we use to enable us to reach that inner silence known as meditation. As we meditate and open this inner Soul or spiritual faculty, we shall not only understand things that we knew about and never before understood, but things that we may never even have heard of before. In the stillness and quiet of the silence, we can receive what cannot be heard through the ears