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Keeping Quiet

Pablo Neruda   Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language, let’s stop for a second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines; we would all be […]

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Paradox of Noise

Gunilla Norris   It is a paradox that we encounter so much internal noise when we first try to sit in silence.   It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain.   It is a paradox that keeping still can lead us so fully into life and being.   Our minds do not like […]

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Blessings for the Chaos

Jan Richardson   To all that is chaotic in you, let there come silence. Let there be a calming of the clamoring, a stilling of the voices that have laid their claim on you, that have made their home in you, that go with you even to the holy places but will not let you […]

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Silence quote by Cynthia Bourgeault

Silence is not absence, but presence. It is a “something,” not a nothing. It has substantiality, heft, force. You can lean into it, and it leans back. It meets you; it holds you up. —Cynthia Bourgeault