THE HEALING PLACE OF SILENCE

An invitation to those who can get past the religious overtones in the following article … is there such a reader?

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A slice of quiet Heaven. :smiley: Thanks for that Tom.

Wendy … you are one of those rare individuals who is able to transcend the odor of religion … may explain why so many ILP members court your thoughts.

Most readers tune out because the article is written by a Catholic priest.

In fact, the essence of the thought expressed in the article is Taoist … predating Christ by more than 500 years.

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Beautiful piece on presence in silence.

silence; when all is said and done.

thus since is beyond time.

God created the world so there could be silence.
Leaves of grass stir to accentuate, man must be heard at manifold increased speeds to understand the gleeful chirping heard by the Earth as it swoops in silence around our voiceless fury.

Jakob,

Thankfully, nature had something else in mind for us.
Not everything which is silent is beautiful, Jakob.

But silence can be beautiful and a journey into healing and self.

The way in which you expressed yourself poetically above is beautiful.

Now that was profound. Sometimes the only thing which can be helpful is one’s quiet presence.
No amount of words can help; indeed, all the can do is push one further down into the dark depths.

Direct exposure to the eternal Void. Thanks Pilgrim.

Feels good to see 5 people transcending religious overtones. Some argue that 19 iterations of 5 people can change the world.

This morning’s article from Ron seems to build on the ‘silence’ article … though the article was written in 1997 … and the message is antithetical to silence.

The title is provocative … Ransom the Captive.

Today … who is the captive?

For example … are the individuals addicted to their smart phones captives? Carried by the current of data pushers … whose psychology is somewhat similar to drug pushers?

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Arc, I remember writing that cosmographic part with a sense of wonder bordering on the disturbing.
The power of words is just short of the power of logic in accentuating certainties, but it is far beyond the power of logic in evoking things, among other things, more words.
A word is a fire in the dark void of the mind. You can count the fires, but that doesn’t tell you how they smell, the color of their deepest light, the way the smoke works on the brain.

Evil is born of envy, that is its singular cause.
Envious demons leap out of peoples throats when the chord is cut

Lessons are in clouds, learning them is the lightning -
the lesson and the teaching are such different things!