"Silence is not a thing to find-- It is a place inside me."
GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki
Nikki Walton
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🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Our only practice is keeping Loving-Silence, the presence of God, in the foreground of our experience.
Hearing This first.
Seeing This first.
Noticing This first.
Being This first,
then being human,
then being a mom, sister, friend, a husband.
Being Love first,
because It makes you a better mom, sister, friend or husband.
Silence is not hiding from you.
You can't find It.
You can't earn It.
you don't have to understand It.
You just have to STOP,
and listen to It...
listen for It...
just like you're listening now...
just like you're relaxing your shoulders now...
just like you're smiling now :)
Don't talk to God today.
Just listen.
Feel It (the Silence).
Hear It (the Silence).
Trust It (the Silence).
Then, watch It :)
I Love you,
Nik
nikki@curlynikki.com
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Today's Quotes:
"Any attempt to find peace is throwing a stone into a calm lake. Peace is already here. You just disturb it by running outside. When you don't make any attempt there is no mind, but when you try to make any attempt, there rises the mind which is going to disturb you."
-Papaji
"Silence is not a thing to find-- It is a place inside me.
I can go there and visit whenever and wherever I want."
-'The Boy Who Searched for Silence' by Andrew Newman
"Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no natter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
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| 0:00.0 | ر |
| 0:03.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:27.8 | God morning to you. |
| 0:32.5 | I listen or wrote in, how do you find this inner quiet you talk about? |
| 0:40.1 | I get quiet and the thoughts get louder and I often follow them and get distracted. |
| 0:45.9 | How do you obtain the quiet and the noise? |
| 0:48.3 | I was just listening to life as but a dream and you talked about the quiet and different |
| 0:53.8 | parts of the body. |
| 0:55.6 | I need a stillness especially when I'm sitting still in God's presence thanks in advance |
| 1:01.2 | for any insight. |
| 1:05.0 | That stillness you're talking about is the presence of God. |
| 1:09.8 | It's not necessarily the stillness of the body but when the body is still it helps. |
| 1:15.4 | It also helps me when the body is gently in a rhythmic motion. |
| 1:23.0 | That kind of trance makes it easy to place the attention on the stillness that already |
| 1:28.3 | is whether the body is still or not. |
| 1:32.1 | Soey now with your eyes closed gently right to left. |
| 1:39.4 | And while that rocking is happening notice what's not rocking. |
| 1:44.5 | It could also say if the mind is noisy and this moment notice the place inside that's |
| 1:54.7 | not thinking. |
| 2:00.3 | And you can hear the thoughts. |
| 2:02.1 | You can hear my voice from inside that silence. |
| 2:10.5 | I was reading a book with a kid's last night called The Boy Who Went Looking for Silence. |
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