In silence

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Be Still! Be Silent!! 3 minute meditation
In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving, and
watch how the pattern improves.
-- Rumi --
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Holy Silence and Healing Presence
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Silence, Silence, Silence... Awkward
silence Companionable silence Partners-in-crime
silence (determined...) Punitive - Ill teach
you...silence (silent treatment) Its too painful
to talk...silence and then there is...
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Holy silence
Not just... -an absence of words or
noises -being unaware of the noises
around But... -communication of care, love
etc -willingness to share in anothers
silence -being comfortable with the silence and
not having to fill it in -comes from within
oneself
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• Silence Thats Talked About in Various Religious
  Traditions
• -Be still and know that I am God Ps.4610
• Gods encounter with Elijah still, small
  voice...
• Ecclesiastes declares, there is a time to be
  silent and a time to speak
• Christs example of drawing away to quietness and
  silence - meditation to refresh and renew

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According to Sri Aurobindo of Pondichery,
Tamilnadu, India There are two great forces in
the universe, silence and speech. To be capable
of silence, stillness, illuminated passivity is
to be fit for immortality... The strength of
noise and activity is, doubtless, great,--did not
the walls of Jericho fall by the force of noise?
But infinite is the strength of the stillness and
silence, in which great forces prepare for
action. The Strength of Stillness, by Sri
Aurobindo, 1910
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-MaunaSilence, according to Sankaracharya, is
one of the essential attributes of a
sanyasin. -The mind that enters itself goes on a
long pilgrimage from which there is no return.
J. Krishnamurti
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There is a sign (from God) in every phenomenon
the sign of the intellect is contemplation and
the sign of contemplation is silence, because it
is impossible for a man to do two things at one
time -- he cannot both speak and
meditate. Observe silence and refrain from idle
talk. --Bahá'u'lláh
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Silence is the universal language. It is a
common human experience that the deepest
communication occurs when nothing needs to be
said in silence, one hears the language of
lovers or close friends and senses the
understanding that flows between people and their
pets or between parent and child. According to
Native American teachings, we can have this
quality of silent communication with anyone, with
any place, and with any aspect of nature.
Kenneth Cohen, Honoring the
Medicine The Essential Guide to
Native Healing
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Being quiet and still is not uncomfortable for
Indian people. We are comfortable with silence
and talking for the sake of talking was not our
way. Time is viewed as flowing and always with
us. We learn to follow natures rhythm.
--Iris HeavyRunner (Blackfeet) and Joann
Sebastian Morris, Traditional Native
Culture and Resilience
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One hour of meditation (muraqabah) is better than
70 years of worship." .... Muraqaba A sufi
meditation practice is the invocation of the
Supreme Name with deep contemplation and
stillness until the falling away of the
attributes and the secret is revealed.
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if its
genuinely inside you, brings what you need.
Theres nothing to believe. Only when I stopped
believing in myself did I come into this beauty.
Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will
say, Be more silent. Move outside the tangle
of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Jelaluddin
Rumi, mystic and Sufi poet Ttanslated by Coleman
Barks and John Moyne
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still the body still the body still the
mind still the voice inside in silence feel the
stillness move friends this feeling cannot be
imagined Kabir (15th Century)
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"Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the
path in a clearer light and what is elusive and
deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.
Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth,
and the soul requires inward restfulness to
attain its full height."
--Mohandas K.Gandhi
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There is nothing in the world that resembles God
as much as silence. --Meister Eckhart, the
13th century German Dominican monk
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in
noise and restlessness. God is the friend of
silence. See how nature--trees, flowers,
grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon
and the sun, how they move in silence.... We need
silence to be able to touch souls.
--Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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We have to learn to be silent, because listening
is born from silence. But the listening of the
heart is always an act of love, a coming
together, even when nothing is heard. from The
Circle of Love by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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Silence is the womb, the space that allows one to
hear a harmony and a rhythm'. Silence is the
inner shaft that lets us go deep within ourselves
to the place of stillness where, having forgotten
ourselves, we become like children' and enter
the kingdom of God. --by Rosa Bellino, For A
Change,  August-Sept, 2002  
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Abide in Stillness --     the refuge of the
breath,     the source of mantra,     the womb
of all,     where form and emptiness
embrace,     where Truth alone is
revealed.     where Love dissolves the
illusion          of differences.
--Kalidas (Lawrence Edwards), The Way To Peace
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Individual practice of silence ? to be
comfortable with silence ? To be comfortable with
others silence
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Stillness is where All of Creation
Begins   Stillness is All Knowledge   Stillness
is Extreme Power    Everything Imaginable and
Unimaginable is created from Stillness.   Stillnes
s Is GOD! You may substitute the word God for
Pure Source Energy or anything else you feel
comfortable with. http//www.bestillnow.com
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Give yourself the gift of Silence Bless others
with the gift of Silence when they need it Just
Be!