Category Archives: Stillness

How To Influence…

Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.  – Rumi (the untold story)

anger

Many of us use our voices, especially its volume, to make a point! It’s so easy to get angry, a reflex action for most.

raise

What if we raised the quality of our ideas, our view of the person we’re talking to and raised the very vibration of the moment? What if we refused to get angry, but instead became thoughtful, understanding and patient?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM gentler in all my interactions!

Recommendation:

The Essential Rumi, New Expanded EditionA Year with Rumi: Daily ReadingsKindle Paperwhite, 6

Why We Should Listen…

Learn to listen, and reality will show you…  – Vernon Howard

listen?

How much do we truly listen? Forget listening to others, how much do we listen to nature and to reality around us? How quiet can our minds become?

stillness

Stillness is the fertile ground upon which deep listening can be based. When our minds are calm and collected we’ll hear the lightest whispers and sense the deepest colors. We’ll be connected to ‘All That Is’ and in that eternal moment we’ll be at peace.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM listening and at peace…

Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard

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Why We’re Never Far…

…the door is wide and open, don’t go back to sleep…  – Rumi (the untold story)

strangers

We’re strangers in our own home. We’re so near the nectar yet we either don’t look for it or don’t know where to alight.

lost in thoughts

Let’s not be worried about the future nor sad about what could have been. Life is happening right now. If we get too lost in our thoughts we’ll pass by the door that’s ‘wide and open’…

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM entering the temple inside me!

Recommendation:

The Essential Rumi, New Expanded EditionA Year with Rumi: Daily ReadingsKindle Paperwhite, 6

The Archer and Us…

One goal, which becomes clearer as we progress, is to detect and eliminate self-contradictions.  – Vernon Howard

the archer

A story from Vernon…

A teacher and his disciples were crossing a field when they passed an archer who was shooting at a target. When an arrow struck the target in the center the archer praised  himself aloud. But when the next arrow missed the target completely the archer angrily blamed a gust of wind.
‘Ah,’ sighed the teacher as the group went on its way. ‘That is so typical of man. When something goes right it is due to his great skill, but a wrong result is always the fault of someone else.’

whose fault?

In one way or another we tend to blame others for what goes wrong in our lives. We are host to many contradictions in how we conduct our lives. Clear thinking and the integration of our mind, body and soul have to be life goals for us. If so, then we must actively remove such contradictions from our lives.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM more objective about my self!

Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard

The Mystic Path to Cosmic PowerKindle Paperwhite, 6

How To Simply Life

Live from moment to moment, just as if every new moment is all  there is. For that, in truth, is all there is.  – Vernon Howard

all there is

Is this moment. Let’s breathe easy and relax into it. Experience it fully. It’s everything, now.

peace

Peace and creativity result from being fully present in the moment. We’re free from the past and the future. Life is good. We can deal with life as it happens. Everything real is eternally safe. We are real. We’re God’s children.

Daily Affirmation: Today I just AM.

Recommendation: The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard

 The Mystic Path to Cosmic PowerKindle Paperwhite, 6

How To Connect With God

Be still before God and wait patiently for him.  – Psalm 37:7

stillness

Building on yesterday’s post. Stillness pays the highest dividends in presence of God. God already knows our thoughts intimately so being present in stillness is suggested.

connecting

Being still and waiting expectantly is the secret technique to connect with God! As we practice this we’ll become even more still and a peaceful joy will overcome us. Inspiring thoughts that are filled with love and service for others will also emerge. When all this happens we can be sure that we’ve connected with God!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM still and waiting on God!

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual EnlightenmentKindle Paperwhite, 6

How To Receive While Giving…

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.  – Eckhart Tolle

stillness

When our minds are still we can meet people as they are not as we perceive them. When our minds are at rest we can see things in their full glory instead of through our ideas of them.

discovery

When we do that we’re primed to discover people and things in ways not previously possible. The world and its inhabitants will now be brand new to us. We’ll be freed from the chains of the past that bind us and be able to tackle life in its nascent freshness. We’ll experience a new level of peace and joy!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM seeing all afresh!

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

 The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual EnlightenmentKindle Paperwhite, 6