We need silence, not to escape from ourselves but to know the foundation, the roots, the tendencies of our true nature. There is in us a zone where noise and tumult have no place, and a zone where everything reverberates. When we try to return to the inner, vital zone, it is not to cancel the noise. We do not make use of our moments of collectedness as a retreat. Inner silence is comparable to a light that reveals what is in the shadows, reveals our mechanicality."


Henriette Lannes, from "Silence," featured in Parabola's Spring 2008 issue: SILENCE

(http://www.parabola.org/)

Love and LIGHT
Jackie


We are all of 1 Spirit
and
1 Spirit is The All That Is!

"There is in us a zone where noise and tumult have no place, and a zone where everything reverberates. When we try to return to the inner, vital zone, it is not to cancel the noise."

The "zone" has no place for noise and tumult, but we do not return to the "zone" to cancel the noise.

The sound of ones own words is wonderful, perhaps especially when they need not align themselves with reason.

Peace

I see a 'time and place' for ALL Ways.

A time for silence and for SILENCE
A time for wildness and for Chaos


Remember, think of nothing as SET.

Ideas and beliefs are to be presented, nothing need be grasped.

The irony is that although we are All The One, ot I believe we are in the Now moment, we are also many. And one belief will suit one of the many us' and not another.

I love this Way. It makes a sense to me and indeed one need not align oneself with reason at all.

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."

Aaah yes - indeed.

Many Paths, Many Ways, Many Mind Sets.

As for understanding, hahahaha - !

Love and LIGHT
Jackie



We are all of 1 Spirit
and
1 Spirit is The All That Is!

Our silent place is our store house of consciousness, of understanding. It is the Eye of the hurricane which, while the storm rages around us, we are centered.

It is a place where one knows, for example, there is no need for forgiveness (unless it is ourselves) because one 'sees'...understands... the process of Matter being adjusted to Spirit (to use mystical terms).

The Christ's reply to the three temptations of Satan (physical, emotional and mental human nature, the three Magi, the three Apostles now transfigured) "get thee behind me Satan" is allegorically depicting our falling back on our store house of consciousness; that place to which our quality of consciousness, our Christ within, has grown to a place of controling our threefold human nature. The Transfiguration symbolises that point in our mind's maturation at which it controls the lower nature. The Crucifixion symbolises that point at which the cross upon which Christ Mind has been crucified, dies. Christ Mind, that place of peace that passes understanding. It is the cross that dies, freeing Christ Mind forever from it's tomb of the threefold human nature so that it can ascend to Father (Cosmic) consciousness.