Hay-Ku of the Day (The Saving Grace of Silence)

Being Here and Now

Still and Silent as I Am

Mindful of the Light.

Being Here and Now

Still and Silent as a I Am

Mindful of the Heart.

Being Here and Now

Still and Silent as I Am

One with the Father.

[Rich Note: The following related passages on Silence are from Robert Sardello's "Silence, The Mystery of Wholeness":

"We live, within our ego consciousness, with a sense of complete self-sufficiency that denies the presence of the spiritual worlds. Silence transforms these two unconscious aspects of the ego, it's fear of the earthly world and fear of the spirit world, for Silence takes fear away. Silence heals fear.

"In Silence then, we still have the capacity of focusing, which characterizes the functioning and true purpose of ego consciousness, but we also have the new capacity of diffuse and whole consciousness that characterizes soul-spirit consciousness. When these two forms of consciousness meld the world is seen as holy. When our ordinary perception combines with Silence, we perceive everything in its holiness."

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"Perceiving the world in Silence makes us think differently. We begin to be aware that our thinking about spiritual matters has been materialistic...Silence, however, is being on the way to spiritualized thinking. The very form of our thinking has to be 're-formed' from 'thinking about' to 'thinking within,' and Silence is the teacher."

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"Silence is intelligence.  It is a mode, a form of intelligence. It is Wisdom. As we enter into the Silence, we enter into Wisdom."

P.S. Simon and Garfunkel's related "One for the Ages":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4 ]

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