Welcome to Stillness Speaks
Stillness Speaks is a resource for self inquiry and self exploration – the endless journey of self realization. We offer works of teachers (luminaries), and wisdom traditions (paths), both historical and contemporary, Eastern and Western, indigenous and otherwise. Our approach is integral – all are welcome!
“Your own self realization is the greatest service you can give the world.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
Lasting Discovery of Truth? Ocean of Silence, Doyle, Gangaji
“… we are awareness itself, beyond the personal …” ~ Billy Doyle
Why Letting In? 1st Step In Peter Russell’s Letting Go (Eckhart Tolle Edition)
“… To let in an experience means to allow it more fully into awareness …” ~ Peter Russell
Zen and the West: Finding Peace in Troubled Times
Trailer of the documentary feature film Zen and the West: Finding Peace in Troubled Times – a Stillness Speaks production.
Notable Posts From Our Archives
Noticing & Allowing: A Simple Key?
“… notice your experience & be curious about it … know that whatever you are experiencing is the right experience … therefore allow it – surrender to it …” ~ Nirmala
Meister Eckhart’s “Wanderings & Wonderings”
“… the eye with which I see God is exactly the same eye with which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowledge, and one love …” ~ Meister Eckhart
Attention: The Spotlight of Awareness – Peter Russell (Part 5)
“… Attention can be thought of as the spotlight of awareness … Rather than the Self identifying with an experience, it is that our attention becomes absorbed in the experience …” ~ Peter Russell
Teachers
The greatest mystery of all: as your journey progresses, you will discover that there truly is only one teacher and that teacher is ultimately found within. Until then, we have many sages that guide us along … or illuminate the way …. we are honored to offer a small sampling of these luminaries … a list that will grow with time.
Traditions
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ~ Aristotle
We offer explorations into the “many paths up the mountain:” from Christian to Sufi, from Zen to Hindu, Kabbalist to Kashmir Shaivism, Advaitic to Indigenous, from philosophical to atheist, from spiritual to scientific – an endless list, that will continue to grow ! …
