“In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”Continue reading “Thought for Today”
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When less is really more than we knew
Originally posted on vitalwholeness:
As we turn another page and begin another year – a relative exercise in the deep scope of time, I know – we pick up a theme from the writings of Thomas Merton, namely, that God shines through all of it. This is a very immanent view of God, that is,…
Thought for Today
“I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” ― Chaim Potok, The Chosen
Thought for Today
“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure.Continue reading “Thought for Today”
Thought for Today
unplug iPod music stops abruptly cricket song instead ~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com
A Simple Discipline: Silence
Silence can be hard to come by in our hectic, fast paced and often LOUD world. Sometimes is seems that everywhere we go we are bombarded with sound and often it is just too loud to ignore. As someone who is very sensitive to sound, if it is too loud it sends shock waves throughContinue reading “A Simple Discipline: Silence”
Thought for Today
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James –
A Few Simple Disciplines
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.” — Jim Rohn I was looking for a good way to start the new year when I happened onto this quote. Most of us tend to over complicate our lives don’t we? We think we have to do it all and we haveContinue reading “A Few Simple Disciplines”
Beautiful Day
Welcome to the first day of the New Year! Let’s make it a beautiful one!
Heal the World
Every year on New Year’s Eve I ask you to join me in praying for peace. This year I ask that we expand our prayers to ask Spirit how we can contribute to peace in the world. Meditate on this and be open to answers. Remember peace has to begin somewhere, often with what mightContinue reading “Heal the World”
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