ORIGINAL SILENCE-INTRINSIC AWARENESS WITHOUT THOUGHT Sunrise/Afternoon August 4, 2017

TRANSPARENT CONDUIT OF GRACE
ORIGINAL SILENCE ALLOWS THE RECEPTION
NEITHER INPUT OR OUTPUT
JUST BE ORIGINAL SILENCE
BE STILL AND KNOW BEYOND KNOWING
INTRINSIC AWARENESS WITHOUT THOUGHT
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4:47 AM-8/4/17

This silence, this moment, every moment,
If it's genuinely inside you,
​ brings what you need.
Rumi

When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you, ...
When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place
​ that the course will divert!
Rumi

There's nothing to believe.
Only when I stopped believing in myself
did I come into this beauty.
Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say,
'Be more silent.'
Die and be quiet.
is the surest sign that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running from silence.
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
​Live in silence.
Rumi

Let silence take you to the core of life.
Rumi

​ AFTERNOON....................

Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water
or take in the sunset like supper,
those who don't want to change,
let them sleep on.
This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
If you want to improve your mind that way,
sleep on.
I've given up on my brain.
I've torn the cloth to shreds
​and thrown it away.
If you're not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of words around you,
and sleep on
Rumi

 How could you reach the pearl
by only looking at the sea?
If you seek the pearl, be a diver:
the diver needs several qualities:
he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand,
he must stop breathing,
​ and he must jump.
Rumi

       “A man once asked Rumi,
"Why is it you talk so much about silence?"
His answer:
"The radiant one inside me
has never said a word.”
​
― Coleman Barks, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems