…consciousness is the common factor in every experience—the undeniable knowingness of being here now, the bare sense of presence. ~ Joan Tollifson
Are consciousness, awareness and attention the same thing? Joan Tollifson answers this question by examining these familiar yet enigmatic “concepts.”
The deepest wellsprings of thought and action exist beyond our ken and beyond conscious control. ~ Robert Saltzman
In Freedom to Be, an excerpt from TheTen Thousand Things, Robert Saltzman explores free-will within the context of no intrinsic self. He explores who or what makes choices and examines what choices really are. Robert turns many of our basic assumptions about choice and freedom up-side down.
I don’t know where your light comes from
or where I end and you begin. ~ Pir Elias Amidon
Benediction is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdullah Ansari.
Experiencing self, other and world as empty is to joyfully experience one’s place in a light, free, open-ended, interpenetrating webwork of relations and dependencies. ~ Greg Goode
Stillness Speaks is pleased to offer this comprehensive ten-part series that explores the nature of Emptiness, written by Greg Goode. This post briefly overviews the series.
This is about actually hearing something for the first time, something you have never heard before. ~ Robert Saltzman
Robert Saltzman has shared this short poetic video with Stillness Speaks which offers a moving photo-montage and lyrical insights about the simplicity of living here and now. Enjoy this brief overview.
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