AUTHENTIC CLARITY OF SOUL "...the silence of God." "...a silent understanding and no more." November 11, 2018

BE THE AUTHENTIC CLARITY OF SOUL
VIA
SILENT LISTENING=DOING*
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ALL IS A GENTLE PAUSE
THE STILLNESS BETWEEN
EACH
INHALE & EXHALE
EXPANDS & ORCHESTRATES
EFFORTLESS EASE
CHOICELESS CHOICE
UNFETTERING’S RELIEF
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12:53 AM-11/11/18 

*“DAMN DOROTHEA!!!…
JUST DO WHAT YOU KNOW TO DO…..
THEY WILL GET OUT OF YOUR WAY
OR WISH THE HAD!!”
...a fomer husband exploded with the above,... 2002...when i was repeatedly lamenting to him on phone.... re: tryng to "cooperate" with too many people
re: a monumentous task upon (mainly) only me at the time...
of clearing/cleaning a family farm estate..
...had been SO PARALYZED
  BY
OTHERS’ OUGHTS AND SHOULDS
until he declared the above!

All quotes below in this color font
​from excellent Sharing here:
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2018/11/bob-fergeson-silence.html

A quiet mind cureth all.
- Robert Burton

All miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly
​ in a room alone.
- Pascal

The first step should be into silence.
Begin with the silent witnessing of your thoughts.
- Vicki Woodyard

What is spiritual silence?
It is not just the absence of talk.
Silence has substance.
It is the presence of something.
- Kathryn Damiano

There is a silence within;
a silence that descends from without;
a silence that stills existence;
and a silence that engulfs the entire universe.

There is a silence of the self and its faculties of will,
thought, memory, emotions.
There is a silence in which there is nothing,
a silence in which there is something;
and finally,
there is the silence of
no-self
and
the silence of God.   
- Bernadette Roberts

All quotes above in this color font 
​from excellent
The Mystic Missal 
 Sharing here:
http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2018/11/bob-fergeson-silence.html

 Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity,
in which the soul lays itself open
to the divine Ground within and without,
the immanent and transcendent Godhead.
- Aldous Huxley
http://www.listeningattention.org/quotes.htm

Let there be a silent understanding
and no more.
Away with all thinking and explaining.
- Huang Po
http://www.listeningattention.org/quotes.htm

​AFTERNOON

All Quotes Below
in this color font from
​http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2018/11/bob-fergeson-silence.html

​To find the goal or aim of our very life, 
the thing we came here for,
is impossible without some level of silence 
within our heart.

We may be desperately searching
for something we have never defined,
driven by anxieties of which
we are mostly unconscious,
and which serve no real need
​ other than to tap our energy.

Working our way back to a silent heart
​ is a wondrous thing, indeed.
​There we may find a goal we can live and die with.

​By witnessing our thoughts,
rather than trying to control them,
we begin to notice the endless internal dialogue
running in our heads.

Tricked into taking sides in this dialogue,
we fight ourselves,
pitting one thought-pattern against another,
trapped in confusion.
We may see that the next step into silence is found by simply listening,
while paying careful attention.

This may be terrifying to some,
for it can threaten us at the level of our individuality,
the ego itself,
for now the voices of intuition and conscience
​may arise unhindered.

​By allowing our innate intelligence, reason, and intuition
to solve the problems of the mind as they surface,
rather than fostering interference
through unquestioned desires and fears
running counter to our aim,
we no longer force the mind to fight itself,
leaving it relatively quiet and efficient.

And perhaps suprisingly,
we find we are no longer identified with it,
and find again another silence,
a silence of the spirit
which contains the mind,
 rather than being contained by it.

Here,
beyond the reach of mind and emotions,
we see we have become a silence,
one that is aware.
​This is what Douglas Harding would call aware capacity.

We have become the space in which all may happen. 
Just like the silence of the physical universe
is the background and foundation of all noise,
as the silence behind the notes allows the music to come into being,
we have become that which gives existence to form and thought.

As this aware silence,
we may turn our attention around,
and as we look within through the Mystery of the Unknown,
we may find our Source,
the Silent Spring from which all is born.

​This journey from noise and confusion to Silent Being
is not in any way an easy one,
and not one which will be carried to the end
by those that desire only ease and bodily peace.

​If you think you will breeze through 
the Gates of Silence with no trouble,
then test yourself by spending
​ a good length of time alone,
in the dead quiet.

Listen to your thought, and feel your heart. 
What do you hear and see, truly?
If there is fear and ambition, desire and anxiety,
​your journey into Silence has just begun.

All Quotes above in this color font from:
​​http://nomindsland.blogspot.com/2018/11/bob-fergeson-silence.html