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SUNDAY JOURNAL
By Dalton Roberts
IPS Feature
9-15-02
SIMPLE SILENCE
"Americans become agitated and lose their self-confidence and up to
75% of their intellectual functioning when faced with periods of silence
lasting longer than one minute," says Mike Feder.
I don't know about all Americans but I do know that statement fit me
very well until I started my days with a period of silence. And that
silence got longer and longer as my enjoyment of it grew. Some call it
meditation but for the sake of simplicity, let's just call it
"silence."
A friend recently wrote me saying he wanted to learn to meditate. I made
some suggestions but I honestly believe the starting point for interior
tuning in is to simply get quiet. I did this daily until I learned to
love it. Once I starting loving it, I kept doing it because we only keep
doing those things we enjoy.
What is there to love about being still and silent? How about relaxation
of tired muscles and ligaments, cooling of the mind and emotions and
often, a centering of the mind into a clarity unknown before.
As the hippies used to say, "Lay back and be cool. Man." The
world doesn't need our noise to keep moving on and neither do we. Just
maybe Someone wants to speak to you.
DIFFERENT KIND OF PRESENCE
I just got word one of my picker buddies, Hymie Lawson, died
on the way home from Pigeon Forge. At the moment I found it out, I was
reading in my journal the eulogy I did in 1989 for another lifetime
friend.
In the eulogy, I said I had learned we do not lose the sense of presence
of our loved ones who leave this physical realm. It's just a different
kind of presence. They are now among our balcony people pulling for us
and – I think – transmitting help to us through our intuition and
spiritual sensory antenna. Maybe that is another reason we should spend
some time being still and quiet.
I am unable to mourn as one having no hope. In Him we live, move and
have our being, as Paul said, and whether we live in the flesh or not,
we are still living, moving and having our being in Him.
We are all lights. We assimilate each other's radiance like the Earth
absorbs the radiance of the sun. Long after the sun goes down, the Earth
still radiates it's warmth.
We are all like those solar lights that charge each day by soaking up
the sun's rays and then light up our yards at night.
Yes, we do lose people's bodies. But we don't lose them. They go on
radiating light and warmth into our lives. We have them forever.
Don't forget that. We have them forever. All we need is to remain open
to reminders of their continuing life in us and with us. We can only
lose those things that never made it into our hearts. Once they reach
our hearts, they are ours forever.
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