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Tag: nothingness (7 entries)

Gravitate to Humility

· 13 March 2008 | 406 words

From Br. Joseph -- This is the fifth reflection on seven signposts for the season of Lent (and for all seasons). Gravitate to humility. This signpost points in the exact opposite direction the world points by pointing to the First...

Nothing Satisfies

· 26 September 2007 | 535 words

Found myself with a rare free moment during the day. After a quick check on the internet for something, I found this little signpost for encouragement. It is a strange signpost, but one none the less. And the trick to...

The One Thing that Never Changes

· 25 August 2007 | 439 words

Reality is flowing. This does not mean that everything moves, changes, becomes. Science and common experience tell us that. It means that movement, change, becoming is everything that there is. There is nothing else; everything is movement, is change....

The Song of Silence

· 3 June 2007 | 47 words

Silence asserts not. It is simple nothingness Around every sound. Like God, silence waits To be heard among the thoughts. It never changes. Not to soothe with balm, Silence calls to stimulate, To notice no-thing. The song of silence Teaches...

Waiting for God

· 24 May 2007 | 433 words

The felt the big emptiness this morning. It actually started yesterday afternoon, but I did not notice or label it as such until this morning. It is not depression. I know depression. It's close, but not the same. There is...

Doing Nothing

· 17 January 2007 | 101 words

"...What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What...

Nothingness

· 16 January 2007 | 129 words

Is the nothingness I yearn for a return to the comfortable nothingness of the womb, or a step forward into the unknown of total giving, of emptying myself to You? Is this want from my egoic, fear and attachment-driven empirical...