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Topic: Take time to be still
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Solane Star
Knowflake Posts: 5378
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted February 26, 2007 12:50 AM
 
Take time to be still "Work is not always required ... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected." -- George MacDonald When was the last time you did absolutely nothing? Our world is so addicted to productivity that we feel guilty if we’re not doing something. But taking time daily to be still and inactive opens us to the spacious present. It nurtures and restores balance. Give yourself a regular gift of inactivity. "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." -- Sir J. Lubbock IP: Logged |
Bluemoon
Knowflake Posts: 4456
From: Stafford, VA USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted February 26, 2007 09:44 AM
 Lovely, Star!!! Permission to VEG!!!! IP: Logged |
hippichick
Knowflake Posts: 1981
From: The Ether
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted February 26, 2007 10:40 AM
Thank you for posting this!!!!SO many people just can not stop---until they are dead---- Stillness is what I LIVE for and most people in my life do not understand the need for it---I can not understand living without it!!! Blessings IP: Logged |
Dew
Knowflake Posts: 177
From: UK
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted February 26, 2007 11:12 AM
When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer, and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining oneself to be something: "I'm this, I'm that", continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.
http://www.nonduality.com/asmi.htm IP: Logged |
Dew
Knowflake Posts: 177
From: UK
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted February 26, 2007 11:59 AM
www.puresilence.org Very cool site on stillness.
In fact, I could say the coolest of all. IP: Logged |
Bluemoon
Knowflake Posts: 4456
From: Stafford, VA USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted February 26, 2007 12:02 PM
Very cool site, DewIP: Logged |
Dew
Knowflake Posts: 177
From: UK
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted February 26, 2007 01:43 PM
It is, isnt it Blue.
Glad you likey.IP: Logged |
Moon666Child
Knowflake Posts: 2025
From:
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted February 28, 2007 05:47 AM
Stillness - the meditation - is required to gather all the energy that we need to do the task at hand at the optimum. Good post!------------------
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Knowflake Posts: 7178
From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted February 28, 2007 12:13 PM
Peregrinatio Est Tacere
"Silence is Pilgrimage"
http://www.amazon.com/Way-Heart-Henri-J-Nouwen/dp/0345329597/sr=1-2/qid=1172682472/ref=sr_1_2/103-6518221-6804604?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/Impersonal-Life-Joseph-Benner/dp/0875163017/sr=1-1/qid=1172682550/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-6518221-6804604?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/His-Presence-Eva-B-Werber/dp/0875161022/sr=1-3/qid=1172682619/ref=sr_1_3/103-6518221-6804604?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Power-Stuart-Wilde/dp/1401905110/sr=1-9/qid=1172682744/ref=sr_1_9/103-6518221-6804604?ie=UTF8&s=books IP: Logged |
TheEvolution
Knowflake Posts: 715
From: Mumbai, India
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted February 28, 2007 12:59 PM
when i sit still, like say for meditation, thoughts rush into my mind, usually negative thoughts. thats why i dread to start meditation as i fear i'll loose interest in it like i did from exercise.anyway to beat that? IP: Logged |
BlueRoamer
Knowflake Posts: 3944
From: Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted February 28, 2007 02:58 PM
You're experiencing the hindrance known as "aversion," which is very common. Try sitting and focusing on your aversion, how does it manifest itself in your body? Do you twitch, move? How does your mind manifest aversion, does it scream, thoughts race? Focus on the aversion and then watch the aversion.Above all you must sit in an upright but relaxed posture. If you sit long enough you will begin to meditate. IP: Logged |
naiad
Knowflake Posts: 1645
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Registered: Sep 2006
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posted February 28, 2007 03:07 PM
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