Your Silence..............

 There is a language so

beautiful that it is never spoken.

There is a deep sort of silence

that may never adequately fall into words.

That, I tell you, is more valuable

than any jewel

or any diamond.

-John M. Sweeney and Mark S. Burrows, channeling Meister Eckhart in Book of the Heart: Meditations for the Restless Soul

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Five good minutes..........................

.........................................................with Buster Keaton

Don't try this at home..................

Ok......................................

"If you have nothing to say, say nothing."

-attributed to Mark Twain

Set....................................

The idea of going nowhere is, as mentioned, as universal as the law of gravity;  that's why wise souls from every tradition have spoken of it.  "All the unhappiness of men," the seventeenth-century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal famously noted, "arises from one simple fact:  that they cannot sit quietly in their chamber."  After Admiral Richard E. Byrd spent nearly five months alone in a shack in the Antarctic, in temperatures that sank to 70 degrees below zero, he emerged convinced that "Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need."  Or, as they sometimes say around Kyoto, "Don't just do something.  Sit there."

-Pico Ilyer,  The Art of Stillness:  Adventures in Going Nowhere

The wisdom of Hobbes......................

Wait........................What..................?

9. Silence is an awesome teacher. Journal your way to helpful insights and solutions. (Because there’s some questions even Google cannot answer!)

-From Not Salmon's list of 11 simple ways to add to daily happiness

Just saying...........................

"A man is more of man because of what he does not say than what he does say."
-Albert Camus

Life Lesson #14........................

..............................Except when your Sweetie is talking with you.  This learning and growing business is slow going.

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Where can you go to find 50,000...................

........................people without one cell phone amongst them?

Here is a clue:

The good folks who put on the Masters Tournament are generous to a fault.  However, they do like their rules and are serious about enforcing them.  Near to top of the rules list is NO CELL PHONES.  I'm guessing there were no cell phones at Augusta National on Sunday.  Kind of cool actually;  nobody texting, nobody checking their e-mail, nobody taking selfies.  Everybody doing what they came to do, watching great golf.  Life the old fashioned way.

A moment..........................................

Quiet now...................................

Happen.......................................

“Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.” 
-Ramana Maharshi

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Have we forgotten how to ponder................?

Mathew Ferrara offers the new killer app - "OFF"

"Going 'off the grid' has become the modern equivalent of seeing a unicorn."

Speak...................................

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