When you appreciate an object for what it is, when you acknowledge its being without mental projection, you cannot not feel grateful for its existence. You may also sense that it is not really inanimate that it only appears so to the senses. Physicists will confirm that on a molecular level it is indeed a [More …]
SIFT Exercise
This is a great body sensing exercise. You can do it for years. You can do it forever. If we’re going to start to study ourselves, we want to make it easier to develop the skills that would allow us to undertake such a study. Set Up a Quiet Space Get it as still, peaceful [More …]
In Touch with Being
Sitting is the easiest access to being, but being is something you can be in touch with the whole day through these gateways: being in touch with your own deep inner peace and silence – the place in you that is always that way, no matter what.
Not only is the ignorant man distracted
Not only is the ignorant man distracted in many ways by external causes and never able to enjoy true serenity of mind, but he also lives as if he were unaware of himself or God or things; and as soon as he ceases to be acted upon, he ceases to be. —Baruch Spinoza
Inward Stillness
Let us then labor for an inward stillness— An inward stillness and an inward healing; That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks in us, and we wait In singleness of heart, that we may know God’s [More …]
