There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude.

Science of Mind magazine: In...ancient days, people believed the sound of God's voice was like raging waters, lightning, and thunder. At God's rebuke, mountains fled and hills melted. Elijah was to learn that the guiding power of God's voice was small and quiet. The only way we can hear the divine voice is through stillness and meditation.

In the quiet, we can learn to focus on hidden matters, see what our physical eyes cannot see, and hear what our human ears cannot hear. (From Dr. Rocco Errico's column "Light from the Language of Jesus," SOM
Charlene Heaton: "Its best to remain silent and be thought a fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt".--Abe Lincoln

Ron Alexander: Thanks Charlene, I am collecting quotes like this to help prepare me for Silent Vipassana Meditation retreat I am returning to next week. Anybody else have a good quote about keeping your mouth shut? Love Yourself:
Sometimes... "Silence" speaks louder than Words. Breathe ~in stillness ~ Exhale ~ Silence ~ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Lesta Sue Hardee Silence is a source of great strength. ~Lao Tzu
1 True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~Confucius
Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. ~Thomas Carlyle
Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arab Proverb

Don Johnson http://thinkexist.com/quotations/silence/
.Jennifer Sullivan Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
· .Christi L Spivey A closed mouth catches no flies.

"There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude.
There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.
There is a sense of holiness in you that the thought of sin has never touched.
All this today you will remember." A Course in Miracles

"Silence is a virtue."
Let this be a gift that you give your self today. Get into a comfortable postion, close your eyes and let your mind settle down. Get behind the mind stream. This is where the real power can be found. It is found in the silence of the vastness that lies within.
"True Intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity & solutions to problems are found.

Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping your inner resistance to to the noise, by allowing it to be as it is, this acceptance also takes you into that realm of inner peace that is stillness."
Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks.

"All things of value are given and received in silence." Meher Baba

"As I silently listen to Spirit within me and think of Its perfection,I know that I am being born into joy, hope & gladness, born into love, faith & assurance.
Silently, I release every negative thought from my mind, I release it and let it go. And I too, pray 'that they may all be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us.'" Ernest Holmes

"Stop the words now, and open the window in your heart
And let the spirits fly in and out out and in...." Peter Makena

"Just one look into your eyes
Now I'm forever falling into the silence inside." Peter Makena

"Be still, and know." Psalm 46:10

'Let every voice but God's be still in me. In deepest silence, would I come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive your Word." A Course In Miracles (lesson 254)

WORD FOR THE DAY (gratefulness.org)
Saturday, Jul. 18

In the silence of listening,
you can know yourself in everyone,
the unseen singing softly to itself
and to you.


Rachel Naomi Remen

Listen, listen


In the stillness of the quiet,
if we listen, we can hear
the whisper of the heart
giving strength to weakness,
courage to fear, hope to despair.

Howard Thurman

Love Truth, Love Silence

If you love truth, be a lover of silence.
Silence, like the sunlight will
illuminate you in God.

St. Issac - 7th Century Hermit Monk

from my Vipassana (Crone to the Bone) friend Jeanne
I hadn't heard from you in awhile and thought you might be at a retreat... so cool that you're doing another.

its incredible, the sensations we become aware of when exploring energy fields... so good that vipassana disciplines us to remain in a detached state of observation... so we can separate ourself from the the intensity of various energies. i don't do anything with the kundalini... other than observe it. In my 20's, I went too far, too fast, with it and other practices... and then backed off for many years. But there again... vipassana puts it in perspective.

I've become such a hermit... that just going out in public is like leaving a retreat... and I'm a walking nerve, not in a bad way, like nervous, but in a way of being attuned and sensitized - and the energies are so wild and untamed out there... at the wilds of the grocery store and on the street.

Funny how it was only a few short decades ago and I was raring to be in the fray of it all. Now... I'm grateful to be out. I once read that the losses of old age are not what we lose, but what we leave. I think I understand. And crone-wise... I'm just a young-in...

But what we gain or change in perspective... when we slow down... after we've let go of much, is magnificent. And I especially love the seniors I see at vipassana courses, with their good posture and sparkly eyes. I'm happy that my senior years hold such promise.

metta,
Jeanne