Books%2FStillness Speaks

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title:: Books/Stillness Speaks
- Listen to Silence Around
- ==Whenever there is some silence around you — listen to it. That means just notice it==.
- Pay attention to it.Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence.
- See that in the moment of noticing the silence around you, you are not thinking. You are aware, but not thinking.
- ==When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.==
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- Highlights
- Every thought pretends that it matters so much. It wants to draw your attention in completely. ==Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously.==
- When you say “yes” to what is, you become aligned with the power and intelligence of Life itself. #Say Yes to Life
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- “Yes” weakens it. Your form identity, the ego, cannot survive surrender. #Say Yes to Life
- I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.
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- How often each day, if you were to verbalize your inner reality at that moment, would you have to say, “I don’t want to be where I am”? #litmustest
- Doing one thing at a time means to be total in what you do, to give it your complete attention. This is surrendered action — empowered action. #Surrender
- Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. #Surrender
- Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key. #dhayana
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- If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.
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