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This retreat was recorded live in April 2010 at the Cowichan Lake Education Centre, BC, Canada, and revised and re-released in 2017. This purchase includes an MP3 audio download with a total running time of approximately 8 hours and 3 minutes. In this teaching, Cynthia Bourgeault explores silence as the ground of conscious love and transformation. Drawing on Robert Sardello’s Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness, she shows how silence leads us beyond craving, need, and ego-identification into a deeper dimension of being where boundaries dissolve and love flows freely. From this wellspring of conscious love, we may still encounter pain, fear, and anxiety, but they no longer overcome us. Instead, silence becomes a current of healing and presence, guiding us toward transformation and wholeness. Key themes include the nature of identification and presence, eros and agape, the distinction between conscious love and emotional love, sacrifice, and the heart as mediator between human and divine. Cynthia also introduces practical approaches such as attention without object, soft focus, heart perception, and integrating silence with Centering Prayer. These teachings lay the groundwork for her later explorations of Mary Magdalene and the Trinity, situating silence as the essential matrix for Christian contemplative life. References for this teaching include works by Robert Sardello, Rainer Maria Rilke, Vladimir Solovyov, Kabir Helminski, Beatrice Bruteau, John Welwood, Ladislaus Boros, and others. Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, and internationally known retreat leader. She is the author of numerous books, including The Wisdom Jesus and Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, and is recognized for her pioneering work in integrating the Christian contemplative path with other global streams of wisdom.