We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
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Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute read more
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a read more
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent read more
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if read more
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if read more
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.
