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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3527, Saturday, May 9, 2009, Editor: Mark
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with
yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in
the world.
- Eckhart Tolle, from Stillness Speaks
The challenge is then to recognize that stillness is always
present. Simply check by turning your mind inward rather than
pursuing its outward flow. Relax, rather than efforting to stop
the mind's outward flow. Rest your mind.
- Gangaji, from You Are That! Satsang With Gangaji, Volume 1
It's in the silence that we can meet as souls.
- Ram Dass
The wonder of silence, of being, of God, of nothingness, of
awareness is that there is nothing you need to do to get anything
or any of it. I repeat there is nothing that needs to be done, by
you or anyone else. Pure Silence is, now. Our only problem is
that we have been taught and conditioned by years and years of
belief systems that we are not in touch with that which is
infinite, that which is unnamed, unknowable and all mighty. And
so we have invented philosophies and religions and techniques and
there have been prophets and messiahs and teachers and gurus and
a myriad of self-help seminars and books about it all. I say to
you now, you need none of it. There is nothing to find out which
is not already here right now. There is nothing to understand,
nothing to learn ,nothing to experience, no enlightenment, no
salvation, no heaven and no hell, no savior and no devil. There
is only a subtle awareness you have right now that you are and
that this awareness is gentle, silent and loving.
You are the silence. All you need do is realize that by attending
to that. Jesus said "the Kingdom of Heaven is within
you." Yes, that is where you should look, within your very
being, mind, brain, soul, whatever. See what is always there,
always stable, always you. Once you see that, once you feel that,
once you know that, there is nothing more to learn or know. Then
you start to live your human life with it's myriads of problems
and situations out of that. And your life is lived out of this
silent peace and anything that arises in your life will be met in
the Pure Silence and you will know how to respond to whatever
comes your way, in truth, in compassion and in total reliance on
that which contains you and is you.
- Mark McCloskey
The rest is silence.
- Hamlet