Quiet Desperation or Joyful Noise?

Most men (people) lead lives of quiet desperation.
Thoreau


Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Barbara Kingsolver (gratefulness.org)


I have read Ernest Holmes on Stillness and joyful noise: "Something within me remains immoveable and says 'Be still and know that I am God.'
I know that this Presence that manifests in my heart and mind is God expressing within that garment of form. As I feel this Presence more and more I hear the Song of Joy deep within me. Always when I hear the Song of Life pouring through my consciousness. I have only to listen, for it is always there...closer to me than breathing...I have nothing to fear. I feel this lovin embrace around me, and I know that it is not only a Song of Joy, but a Song of Love and Protection.
Life sings through me in radiant ecstasy.

Ron: Be still and hear yourself breath & meditate!

Ra Divakar Huh! "Be still and hear a joyful noise" - I guess that is more subtle noises like that of water lapping, wind blowing, your breathe and the whisper of a lover?

 ‎"The very concept of stillness is an illusion based on the illusion of time. In other words stillness is not exactly a real possibility. That is why when you sit in quiet meditation you discover that the world is not so still as it seems; that things are constantly in motion even though they seem still by degrees." The Twelve" (in "The Cause of Time")

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