Silence flows like poetry

Worrying is the incessant chattering of the over-active mind that is fueled by your fears.

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Silence helps you evolve and grow. It helps your wisdom blossom. It teaches you to trust your inner self. Silence flows like poetry. Silence is the dance of discernment. Silence is the language of communication with God.

Uzma Mazhar © 2001

The attitude of silence

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

...the noisiest era ever.

Now we live in the noisiest era ever. There never was a time when we needed silence and quiet and calm more. But we worship speed for its own sake, and sheer sound for its own sake, and power for its own sake.

Harold Brown

Soon silence will have passed into legend

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Jean Arp

Hjertets stillhet

"Når lyset kommer inn i hjertet, vil det gjenspeile seg og bli utvidet, Det betegner seg som løsrivelse fra det begrensede selvet og som hjertets stillhet." Profeten Mohammad (fvmh)

... silent about things that matter

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

Martin Luther King

Silence, Love, Pain, Darkness

But you love to let me go into a cloud where knowledge does not dwell and where all things are still and wrapped in love and you.

I love the cloud, the silence, the love, and you; and I love the pain, the darkness, and the strange rain of things that happen by your will to me when you desire that I should retire from the cloud and go to search for your footprints in the dark of men’s souls....

The cloud of “not knowing,” the dark, the rain, the pain, the cold, the tempter’s laugh, his loathsome touch, the slimy things of hell, the dank rivers of pride, so still, so black, the pains that come and go, the wood that holds me tight—oh, Love, for you and souls, give those to me and I will call them joyous ecstasies.

Catherine de Hueck Doherty

Children Learn What They Live

• If a child lives with criticism,

• he learns to condemn.

• If a child lives with hostility,

• he learns to fight.

• If a child lives with ridicule,

• he learns to feel shy.

• If a child lives with shame,

• he learns to feel guilty.

• If a child lives with tolerance,

• he learns to be patient.

• If a child lives with encouragement,

• he learns confidence.

• If a child lives with praise,

• he learns to appreciate.

• If a child lives with fairness,

• he learns justice.

• If a child lives with security,

• he learns to have faith.

• If a child lives with approval,

• he learns to like himself.

• If a child lives with acceptance and friendship,

• he learns to find love in the world.

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The Force, by Stuart Wilde

Your power comes from understanding that where others are is where they need to be, and whatever they are doing is for their highest growth, and you should not judge it. By totally accepting other people's reality, you express true universal love, and you invigorate your own progress, because judgement does not hold you back to the baser physical level.

from The Force, by Stuart Wilde