by Anadi To understand who we are and what meditation is, we must grasp the nature of the correct relationship with thinking. Such a relationship can only begin after we have access to our true…
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by Sri Chinmoy Sometimes I must be silent For that is the only way To know a little better, To think a little wiser, To become a little more perfect, To claim God a little sooner….
Transcript from public talk by Lama Thubten Yeshe When your sense perception contacts sense objects and you experience physical pleasure, enjoy that feeling as much as you can. But if the experience of your sense perception’s contact…
Living Meditation, Living Insight by Dr Thynn Thynn J: I still don’t understand how we can make the mind silent. Thynn: You must realise that you cannot make the mind silent. The more you…
“A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the entire scale of metaphors, from the resurrection of a man in his grave, to the sudden…
“It is commonly considered rude to keep silent in the company of others, but voluntary silence connects rather than distances us from others whose individual differences temporarily fade away creating a shared feeling of harmony…
from This day is fortified by Flower A. Newhouse Those who practice a watch of silence each day find their devotion takes them into ever-deepening realizations of God’s immediate presence. Silent watch periods are…
by Joseph Dispenza A former monk shares insights from a year of solitary prayer and contemplation. A few weeks after I graduated from high school, I left home and went away to a monastery. For the…
by Maria Popova “Sound imposes a narrative on you, and it’s always someone else’s narrative.” A recent New York Times Magazine piece on the extinction of silence prompted me to revisit George Prochnik’s excellent In…
“Silent” and “Listen” are anagrams. An anagram is, of course, a word constructed by rearranging the letters in another word, using all the letters in the first word, each exactly once. The word “anagram” first…
