In silencethere is

eloquence.Stop weaving,and watch how

the pattern improves.

In silencethere is

eloquence.Stop weaving,and watch how

the pattern improves.

Be Still! Be Silent!!

3 minute meditation

Be Still! Be Silent!!

3 minute meditation

-- Rumi --

-- Rumi --

Holy Silence

and

Healing Presence

Holy Silence

and

Healing Presence

Silence, Silence, Silence...

Awkward silence

Companionable silence

Partners-in-crime silence (determined...)

Punitive - I’ll teach you...silence (silent treatment)

It’s too painful to talk...silence

and then there is...

Silence, Silence, Silence...

Awkward silence

Companionable silence

Partners-in-crime silence (determined...)

Punitive - I’ll teach you...silence (silent treatment)

It’s too painful to talk...silence

and then there is...

Holy silenceHoly silenceNot just...

-an absence of words or noises

-being unaware of the noises around

But...

-communication of care, love etc

-willingness to share in another’s silence

-being comfortable with the silence and not having to fill it in

-comes from within oneself

Not just...

-an absence of words or noises

-being unaware of the noises around

But...

-communication of care, love etc

-willingness to share in another’s silence

-being comfortable with the silence and not having to fill it in

-comes from within oneself

Silence That’s Talked About in Various Religious Traditions

-“Be still and know that I am God” Ps.46:10

-God’s encounter with Elijah – ‘still, small voice...’

-Ecclesiastes declares, ‘there is a time to be silent and a time to speak’

-Christ’s example of drawing away to quietness and silence - meditation to refresh and renew

Silence That’s Talked About in Various Religious Traditions

-“Be still and know that I am God” Ps.46:10

-God’s encounter with Elijah – ‘still, small voice...’

-Ecclesiastes declares, ‘there is a time to be silent and a time to speak’

-Christ’s example of drawing away to quietness and silence - meditation to refresh and renew

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

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

-Mauna—Silence, 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

-Mauna—Silence, 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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 nature’s rhythm. --Iris HeavyRunner (Blackfeet) and Joann Sebastian Morris,

Traditional Native Culture and Resilience

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 nature’s rhythm. --Iris HeavyRunner (Blackfeet) and Joann Sebastian Morris,

Traditional Native Culture and Resilience

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.

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.

This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s 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

This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s 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

still the body

still the bodystill the mind

still the voice inside

in silencefeel the stillness move

friendsthis feeling

cannot be imaginedKabir

(15th Century)

still the body

still the bodystill the mind

still the voice inside

in silencefeel the stillness move

friendsthis feeling

cannot be imaginedKabir

(15th Century)

"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

"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

“There is nothing in the world that resembles God as much as silence.” --Meister Eckhart, the 13th century German Dominican monk

“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

“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

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

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

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  

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  

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

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

Individual practice of silence

to be comfortable with silence

To be comfortable with others’ silence

Individual practice of silence

to be comfortable with silence

To be comfortable with others’ silence

Stillness is where All of Creation Begins 

Stillness is All Knowledge 

Stillness is Extreme Power  

Everything Imaginable and Unimaginable is created from Stillness.

 Stillness Is GOD!

*You may substitute the word God for Pure Source Energy or anything else you feel comfortable with.

http://www.bestillnow.com

Stillness is where All of Creation Begins 

Stillness is All Knowledge 

Stillness is Extreme Power  

Everything Imaginable and Unimaginable is created from Stillness.

 Stillness Is GOD!

*You may substitute the word God for Pure Source Energy or anything else you feel comfortable with.

http://www.bestillnow.com

Give yourself the gift of Silence

Bless others with the gift of Silence when they need it

Just ‘Be’!

Give yourself the gift of Silence

Bless others with the gift of Silence when they need it

Just ‘Be’!