靜默與寧靜
當你與內在的寧靜失去連接，你就失去了與你自己的連接。當你與自己失去連接，你就在這世界迷失了自己。
你內在最深處的關於你是誰的自我意識，與寧靜不可分離。這就是“我是”，它更深於你的名字與外在形式。
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寧靜是你最真實的本性。什麼是寧靜？寧靜就是你的內在空間或覺知，在這內在空間裡，這一頁的文字正在被解讀，然後成為思想。沒有那個覺知，就沒有感覺，沒有思想，沒有世界。
你就是那覺知，偽裝成一個人的樣子。
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與外面的噪音相對應的是內在頭腦的噪音。與外面的靜默相對應的是內在的寧靜。
無論何時，當有靜默圍繞著你 – 傾聽它。那個意思是留意它。將注意力轉向它。傾聽靜默可以喚醒你內在寧靜的層面，因為只有通過寧靜你才能注意到靜默。
注意這一點，在你留心周圍的靜默的那一刻，你沒有在思考。
你是有意識的，卻沒有在思考。
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當你意識到靜默，立即有一種內在寧靜的警覺升起。你完全臨在。你已經走出了千百年來人類集體的局限。
Silence and Stillness
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the “I Am” that is deeper than name and form.
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Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.
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The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.
Whenever there is some silence around you — listen to it. That means just notice it.
Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence.
See that in the moment of noticing the silence around you, you are not thinking. You are aware, but not thinking.
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When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.
