When you feel like you are lost, you are only lost in thoughts and not in actuality. Only because you think and thinking is not voluntary by its nature, you are essentially bound by thoughts, and not even touched in reality. In silence, you are yourself, for thoughts are not there in your experience anymore. Silence, that is, in the absence of thoughts you are actually yourself. Never bound, free. This is so simple that a thinking person can't face this. It would threaten the existence of their mind, which makes them ignore or blindly argue against it. Yet the truth is - _"The degree of the absence of thoughts is the measure of your progress towards Self-realization."_ - Ramana Maharshi