DOES NOT THINK, PROCESS OR LABEL.
BE THAT!
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INSTANT PEACE BEYOND EARTHLY MEASURE
ew
4:13 AM - 6/19/15
palpable as the presence of a Presence
a benediction without diction
a blessedness without symbol
immanent
from miriam louisa
http://echoesfromemptiness.com/2015/06/20/early-this-morning/
read by ew 9:10 p.m.
6/19/15
(miriam resides in a different geographic time zone)
SILENT’S SONG....
ALL WORDS ARE
CONFUSING,
CACOPHONOUS LIES.
ew
9:39 PM
6/19/15
See Read More below for
'THE POWER OF SILENCE"
the below first read below by dmm during the late 1990's
THE POWER OF SILENCE
excerpt from:
Volume VIII - The Art of Being Health and Order of Body and Mind
Chapter XVIII
The Power of Silence
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
There are different ways of receiving inspiration, but the best is silence. All the mystics have kept silence. All the great people I saw during my travels through India and other different places kept silence for two or three hours a day, or at least for one hour.
In Hyderabad there was a mystic called Shah Khamosh. He was called so because of his silence. When he was young he was a very clever and energetic boy. One day he went to his Murshid and as usual had some questions to ask, as is natural in an intelligent person. The Murshid was sitting in ecstasy and did not wish to speak, so he said to him, 'Be quiet' (Khamosh!)
The boy was much struck; he had never before heard such a word from his Murshid who was always so kind and merciful and willing to answer his questions. This lesson was enough for him for his whole life, for he was an intelligent person. He went home and did not speak to his family, nor even to his parents. His Murshid seeing him quiet did not speak to him.
For many years Shah Khamosh never spoke and his psychic powers became so great that only to look at him was enough to be inspired. Wherever he cast his glance he healed. This happened not very long ago, perhaps twenty-five years ago.
Nowadays activity has increased so much that from morning till night there is never any repose owing to our daily occupations, which keep us continually in movement. At night we are so tired that we only wish to sleep, and the next morning activity begins again. In this way life is much destroyed. Man does not think of the life that is there for him to enjoy. Every person should have at least one hour in the day to be quiet, to be silent.
After silence of speech comes silence of thought. Sometimes a person is sitting still without speaking, but all the time his thoughts are jumping up and down. The mind may not want the thoughts, but they come. The mind is let out to them like a dancing room and they dance around in it. One thought then must be made so interesting, so important, that all other thoughts are driven away by it.
When thoughts have been silenced, comes silence of feelings. You may not speak against some person, there may be no thought against him in your mind, but if there is a bitter feeling against him in your heart, he will feel it; he will feel there is a bitterness for him in that heart. Such is also the case with love and affection.
The abstract is that existence beyond this world where all existence commingles, where it all meets. The sound of the abstract is there, and when that sound is silenced too and a person goes beyond it, he reaches the highest state, Najat, the eternal consciousness. Of course a great effort is needed to attain that state.
Silence is surely the remedy for much, but a person living in the world cannot practice it continually. He must keep watch over his words and remember that for every word he will be awarded heaven or hell.
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VIII/VIII_1_18.htm
palpable as the presence of a Presence
yet utterly ineffable
a benediction without diction
beyond the grope of thought
a blessedness without symbol
not experienced as other but
immanent
– inescapably so –
oh!
silence
from miriam louisa
http://echoesfromemptiness.com/2015/06/20/early-this-morning/
read by ew 9:10 p.m.
6/19/15