SPIRITUAL EXPLORATIONS -- 73

WE ARE EXPLORING THE PRACTICE OF SILENCE

+ Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

+ That’s because authentic hospitality does not mean that you have to make others into close friends.  They can remain strangers.  Not enemies.  But strangers because no one is required to reveal themselves to you or to anyone.  That comes with patience, with trust, with humility, gentleness, kindness over a period of time, perhaps more time than you would like.  Friendship can and does happen but it ordinarily requires time and definitely, at least from time to time, "an immense quiet."  

Our society has become frantic and loud.  We cannot create much intimacy, much depth, until and unless we learn how to be silent and trust significant periods of silence in our lives.  Will you make a commitment to create sacred spaces of silence so that genuine transformation can take place in yourself and in others?

 

+ Spirituality&Practice offers many resources on the Spiritual Practice of Silence and a wonderful photo and quotes gallery.

+ Spirituality&Practice offers many resources on the Spiritual Practice of Hospitality and a wonderful photo and quotes gallery. The meme above comes from that gallery.

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