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If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your face and say,       Like this. When someone mentions the gracefulness of the nightsky, climb up on the roof and dance…

Contradictions . . . for it is certain that as man’s insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he…

We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its…

Now I see something in my listeners that won’t let me continue this way. The ocean flows back in and puts up a foam barrier, and then withdraws. After a while, it will come in again. This audience wants to…

Words spoken in prayer while we are in ordinary consciousness are linear, perhaps emotion-filled. These same words spoken while we are within Silence reverberate and resound, their resonance spreading out within the infinity of intimate silence. Praying can be mechanical…

The way of Silence is a way of feeling, and the heart is the centre of feeling. When we are able to place our attention into the centre of the heart, we develop the cognition of Silence because feeling is…

We can certainly go into the Silence without the practice of clearing . . . But clearing brings to the forefront new qualities of Silence that transform our inclinations to work for ourselves in more or less selfish ways in…

As Silence becomes more an ongoing aspect of our lives, our perception of things of the world, and of others, changes from one in which we perceive surfaces to one in which we perceive the soul qualities of what is…