Living the effortless spiritual life…
Posted in Meditation Tips, Quotes - 2010, Stillness on Feb 3rd, 2010
Silence is a receptive space. – Barbara De Angelis
be still
Creation comes from silence. There’s a pause, a space between each of our thoughts. Pay attention to that space. That’s where creativity springs from. Which is why it’s important for us to be in control of our thoughts and not let them be the usual runaway [...]
Posted in Quotes - 2010 on Jan 12th, 2010
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. - Kung-fu-tse (Confucius)
chutzpah
We most often have the attitude that essentially we know the answer. We know what makes us happy, we know what to do with our relationships and we know how to figure things out. This is despite [...]
Posted in Quotes - 2009, Stillness on Sep 7th, 2009
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. – Henry David Thoreau
The modern day equivalent to the Post Office is email, the internet and the cell phone! When we don’t have a satisfying inner life, we run towards outwardly distractions to occupy our minds. We fill our [...]
Posted in Meditation Tips, Quotes - 2009, Stillness on Sep 1st, 2009
It is because artists do not practice, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to worship reverently the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to create a new religion. – G. K. Chesterton
For how long can you sit still and do nothing? What part of [...]
Posted in Meditation Tips, Quotes - 2009 on Jun 23rd, 2009
I will speak to you if you listen. I will come to you if you will invite Me. I will show you then that I have always been there. All ways. – Neale Donald Walsch
The creator, the universal creative essence, indwells us. That presence is available. We don’t know it because we haven’t paid attention. [...]
