You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.
You need not even wait,
just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Artist: Noell S. Oszvald: “Silence” via artlimited.net via yama-bato.
Quote Source: blogut via creatingaquietmind
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What it means to be at peace with oneself and the world around you.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
Yes, peace with oneself, a most worthy goal…
Great quote. I need to read that often. Thank you.
Thanks Jenni.
Love it and ties back to some thoughts running through my mind after your blog on productivity. Where, in our quest to be productive,to be efficient, to maximize every opportunity within the time we have given to us, do we get to do nothing; to be silent; to think (or perhaps not think and just feel)? For me, success is not only defined by what I accomplish, but also by what I learn, by how I grow and for me, I need the silent time, the quiet time, the waiting time to do that. Thanks for sharing.
Yes Laurie. After the race, there needs to be time to stop…to live in the moment. I find that solitude (and music) helps me block out mind noise and chatter.
This picture is amazing so tranquil. The gift of silence…..
Yes Tina. I’m in awe how artists (like this one) are able to capture a feeling. I saw this picture – I saw silence (and tranquility). What a talent…
Love that and it’s ironic that it relates to how I have been learning how to breathe properly. Breathing & being still…easier said than done with my brain racing all the time!
Yes. Keeping still. Mindfulness. All aspirational for me.
David,
Things I could have said:
Oh, thank you. And, you know what I mean.
No you don’t!
And yes, you purposely did.
Learn who you have wronged, and be most aware that any untruthful attempt at ecstasy, perhaps acquired for her, has in no way been conveyed to me.
Properly post it wherever it applies,
Marty
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I find Being quiet, truly still, incredibly difficult. Yet in those rare moments I can achieve that state, I am rewarded with a sense of rejuvenation and “centeredness” (I think I just made up that word) that I find almost intoxicating….
I’m with you Lori. It happens so rarely. Calm. Peace. Still. And yes, intoxicating, that’s the word. You’ve captured it again – it’s intoxicating when experiencing those rare moments.
An important place to visit everyday I think, if one can..It restores, humbles, awes. Yet the picture..was the image bowed with the stark beauty of stillness, crying with the knowledge of a reality unknowable to us, is her silence so stark and bare that no one can reach her?
I’ve re-read your comment 3x. And, will probably do so another 3x. Profound insight. Period.
Full stop. Got it.
I would give 100 likes to Mimi’s comment because it actually is like the continuation of the above post. Loved them (The post and the comment).
Isn’t she amazing Sonia!
this photo’s uncannily similar to a scene I just described in my novel! Lovely quote.
I’m going to have to check out your novel then!
it is gradually emerging.
MyTai Chi teacher used to come up to me in lessons and say “relax”, and I’d reply “I am relaxed”, and she’d say “no you’re not”, then I’d get more tense than I was in the first place because I couldn’t achieve a level relaxation that existed outside of my experience.
I don’t go to the lessons anymore, but just do the limbering up Qi Gong exercises most days, at double the speed that my teacher would’ve have approved of.
Smiling…I don’t know what Qi Gong is, but I’m stressing already. 🙂
There’s spiritual or sports Qi Gong — and I guess it’s the latter that I enjoy, although would prefer it if I was calm enough to get more into the spiritual side of it.
You might be interested to have a look at this http://www.qigonghealing.com/qigong/whatis.html
Thanks Sarah. I’ll check it out.
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I loved it…
Thanks for sharing Nia…
Learning how to give attention, which includes silence is important to progress in positive ways in life.
I agree. I have a ways to go here…