This world is so distracting.
Do you remember what it was like back in 1899?
Think about it.
No telephones, no tv, no music except when you went to the opera house or went out into the streets, and no internet.
You’d sit in the parlor or out in the grass with a book or with other people.
When in your day is there just QUIET? Undisturbed uninterrupted quiet?
You need to create this quiet. There is no other way. You have to make a decision to turn down the volume in your life, and to be “still an instant and go home.”
I’m wondering about the DISTRACTION LEVEL in your life.
Do you ever just sit on the couch reading A Course in Miracles?
For an hour?
Or two hours?
Do you ever just do nothing?
No goals, no plans … just pure being in the moment.
Do you sit down for dinner with people you love? At a table, with no distractions. No sitting there text-messaging or checking voicemail messages. No rushing off in the middle of a meal because your favorite tv show starts in 5 minutes.
Last summer I worked in a resort with 20-year olds and there would be a group of us standing around – like 10 people – waiting for the event to begin, and rather than talking to each other, everyone was in their own little bubble text-messaging other people. It was the most bizarre thing I’d ever seen.
No communication. Constant preoccupation with external things.
So, take yourself back in time. Better yet, take yourself OUT OF TIME. Make a decision to live in a space where there are no distractions.
To be in a place where you realize you are what everything is, and to know that your mind is part of God’s. You are very holy.
In this place, you realize there is nowhere to go and nothing to do – all goals have been achieved – and you are home in Heaven
I love silence. I lay in bed at night and just let it envelop me like a blanket. Except for last night because it is almost impossible to do wearing body armor! I read this post after I wrote mine and remembered the silence. I went to the gym which is full of music, people and confusion but all I heard is silence and all I saw was stillness. The peace of Monday is back. Thanks.
“Last summer I worked in a resort with 20-year olds and there would be a group of us standing around – like 10 people – waiting for the event to begin, and rather than talking to each other, everyone was in their own little bubble text-messaging other people. It was the most bizarre thing I’d ever seen.”
HAHAHAHAHA. That is so TRUE.
Thank you. When I find a quiet environment I can hear the cacophony of my own thoughts, and then I can slip past them, too. I drop down below them like a stone falling to the bottom of a lake, where all is still, silent. It lets me be. It feels like home. yes.
I love you………………………..