Acting out of silence is meditation

Who would I be if I weren't engaged in all my shenanigans? How can I get to see who I would be? The excerpts below speak to that for me. It shows me a way to not just react but respond skillfully...by seeing if can drop the storyline by interrupting things and experimenting with some silence...seeing if that can help me to respond skillfully instead of reacting...

Excerpts from: http://www.awakin.org/read/audio.php?op=play&tid=2093
"Minimizing in daily life the frequency, the duration and the field of mental activity and living in silence, acting out of that silence is meditation. This meditation, this silence, has got a tremendous momentum of its own…You do not have to do a thing. You are not there: the ego, the mind, is not there. What happens in that silence? How does that silence move? It is something to be experimented with."

"Meditation is watching the movement of mind in relationship. If you try to force the mind into silence by withdrawing from activity, you will never understand what silence is…There is a great beauty when one discovers what silence in action is. Meditation is a new approach to total life, it does not demand of you any isolation."

The 2nd paragraph led me to think that there's a contradiction between it and the 1st paragraph...but I don't think so anymore now that I've thought about it more... I think it's saying to bring meditation into daily life...incorporate it in...like I've done with my 2 min meditation breaks...

Here's a post that has download links for mp3s of timers that you can use to facilitate taking 2 minute meditation breaks regularly:
http://e-a-s-e.blogspot.com/2016/01/mindfulness-handout.html