John Marshall on Enabling Silence
“I have the power to enable silence.”
— John Marshall, Lakota Tradition
“I have the power to enable silence.”
— John Marshall, Lakota Tradition
“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.”
— Buddha
“You don’t convince anyone by arguing.
— American Lakota Elder
People make their decisions in their heart.
Talk doesn’t touch my heart.
People should think of their words like seeds. They should plant them, then let them grow in silence.
Our old people taught us that the earth is always speaking to us, but that we have to be silent to hear her.
I can understand all the trees.
The wind.
All the animals.
The insects.
I can tell what a color of the sky means. Everything in the natural world speaks to me.
Teaching our children well.”
“The experience of love is really the understanding that you and I are are the same being, that your being and my being is the same being. The understanding that there is only one reality leads to the experience of love. This is love in the deepest sense.”
— Francis Lucille
“When you have that level of awareness, the meaning of suffering changes and all suffering is showing you is where your mind is still clinging.”
— Ram Dass
“Heaviness of body and dullness of mind which can drag one down into inertia and depression is considered one of the five hindrances to Shamatha meditation. Any problem which arises in meditation will be one of these five hindrances, or a combination.”
— Ajahn Brahmasovo
“The basis of Right Action is to do everything in mindfulness.”
— Thich Nhat Hahn
“It is never what you do which entangles you. It is the expectation of what you should get which entangles you.”
— Sadhguru on the Bhagwad Gita
“So’ham is a Vedic mantra or chant meaning “I am That”….”I am what She/He is” — It means identifying oneself with the universe or ultimate reality or awareness.”
— Incl. Max Müller translation of The Upanishads
“Thought is time; Prana, breath is time; ingestion of food is time. Any action is bound by time. Dinacharya (Daily Habits for Healing) teaches us how to use time – every action in proper time. This is what makes time a great healer.“
— Vasant Lad
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