Thought for Today

“To know yourself and the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.” — Eckhart Tolle

Thought for Today

“Learning how to be still, to really be still, and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance. ” — Morgan Freeman

Thought for Today

“Not merely an absence of noise, real silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.” — Peter Minard

Light, Life, Love

Greetings readers! Just letting you know that Bob has a new blog post up. This is some of his best writing and I know you won’t want to miss it. My guy can write! 🙂

“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”

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”