Real Gift Of Finding Silence Here? Elias Amidon Notes Open Path
“… Returning to the source is Silence, which is the way of nature …” ~ Lao Tzu
Can We Love More? Elias Amidon Notes Open Path
“… Love says “I am everything”. Wisdom says “I am nothing”. Between the two, my life flows …” ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Are Inner Peace & External Activism Interconnected? Elias Amidon Notes Open Path
“… We can’t find it out there because it’s right here in the intimacy of now …” ~ Elias Amidon
Elias Amidon: Can Gentleness Help With Presence? Notes Open Path
“… gentleness, like grace, proclaims the presence of the Principle of all things…” ~ Pierre Hadot
Why Embracing Selflessness Is A Gift? Elias Amidon
“… a simple way to practice relaxing our grip on our self-sense that’s available to us at every moment … simply be present, right now …” ~ Elias Amidon
Living Solidarity & Justice: 365 Life Prayers by Roberts, Amidon
“… prayers of solidarity & justice … sing of a life free and simple … at one with nature’s beauty …” ~ Catholic Bishops of Appalachia
Awaken Deep Peace For All: 365 Earth Prayers Poems Amidon Roberts
“… EACH of us is blessed with moments of grace, moments when our soul becomes clear and quiet …” ~ William Stafford
Living Moments of Grace? Life Prayers Amidon, Roberts
“… EACH of us is blessed with moments of grace, moments when our soul becomes clear and quiet …” ~ William Stafford
How To Remember We Are One: Unity Prayers for a Thousand Years
“… We rise from one ocean …” ~ Anwar Fazal
Listen: An Invitation To Peace & Unity … via Prayers
“… May we listen to God in quietness and awe …” ~ Jay McDaniel
Living Presence: A Practice – Elias Amidon
“… Presence is the silent host of all that appears. It is what allows aliveness to flow forth …” ~ Elias Amidon
Kindness & Trust: Amidon & Beach
“So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths … while just the act of being kind is all the world needs.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox … “… Stillness is the teacher. Presence is the lesson. Trust in the process that brought you here and the promise of awakening it holds …” ~ Zach Beach
Generosity, Balance, Sovereignty – Elias Amidon
“… to contemplate the Ocean of Generosity we live in, and how every moment it makes its offering … ~ Elias Amidon
The Welcoming Practice – Elias Amidon
” … to open to the openness that is silent, that is the background of every moment of our lives … ” ~ Elias Amidon
The Way: Sufi Tao – Elias Amidon
“The way we follow … flows everywhere without moving, never straying from this moment.” ~ Elias Amidon
The Beautiful Revolution: Hope within Despair – Amidon
the beautiful revolution: “… My safety and fulfillment includes yours. The health of the planet is inseparable from our own health. We are one interdependent, interconnected happening. And the whole thing is alive! …” ~ Elias Amidon
The History of Love – Elias Amidon
“… Love is the perfect stillness …” ~ Rabia
Peace Prayer … & Mother Water by Amidon
“… Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness …” ~ Baha’i peace prayer
The Beloved Community – Amidon
“… When we walk on a path through a forest and feel calmed by the beauty of the dappled light, we are welcomed into the Beloved Community of beauty …” ~ Elias Amidon
The Other Side of Death – Amidon
“… As Ramana Maharshi testifies, we don’t have to wait until death to recognize the Immutable Light that is our original nature …” ~ Elias Amidon
Your Top Interests of 2019 & More …
What interested you the most in 2019 … and how you accessed and consumed it …
Beloved: You are This – Munajat by Amidon
“… closer than now where everything happens, you, my beloved, are this … ” ~ Pir Elias Amidon
So Close … Closer Than Breath – Amidon
“It’s so close you can’t see it. It’s so profound you can’t fathom it. It’s so simple you can’t believe it. It’s so good you can’t accept it.” What is it?
Munajat: Pretend That You & I are Two : Elias Amidon
“… Now that the dawn has come so gently … my quiet soul … warms its wings in the morning light … ” ~ Pir Elias Amidon
Impermanence: It’s Deeper Secret – Amidon
““Everything is perishing except God’s Face.” What is it that does not come and go? or … What is permanent? Why is it important to explore permanence and impermanence?
Munajat: The Nest of Your Nearness, by Pir Elias Amidon
“… praying in this manner … points to the unspeakable majesty of the Real … It’s a form of prayer that endears at the same time that it is in awe … ” ~ Pir Elias Amidon
Self Inquiry: The Intimacy of The Real – Elias Amidon
“Eternity is your refuge. Recognize eternity within yourself. Eternal presence is Buddha-mind. Eternal presence is not becoming Buddha-mind or attaining Buddha-mind. It is recognizing itself as eternal Buddha-mind now.” ~ Gangaji
Quietness – The Morning’s Gift … by Elias Amidon
“… the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being …” ~ Rumi
Munajat: Your Help, by Pir Elias Amidon
You are the becoming and the here, the flowing and the still. ~ Pir Elias Amidon Your Help is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdullah Ansari.
Munajat: Your Home, by Pir Elias Amidon
You are very quiet, but you leave this trace in my heart. ~ Pir Elias Amidon Your Home is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdullah Ansari.
Sanctuary by Elias Amidon
Our future is, and always has been, something given by the whole universe. ~ Elias Amidon Sufi teacher and writer Elias Amidon explores impermanence and presence within our notion of Sanctuary. These “two” qualities of our sanctuary — impermanence and presence — are not in actuality two. How this i …
Elias Amidon: How to Practice Living Presence
“The source of existence is immanently present, and it is alive.” ~ Elias Amidon Sufi teacher and writer Elias Amidon reveals ways to be intuitively open to presence which is both around us and in us — at all times, as the living source of our existence.
Pir Elias Amidon: Open Awareness
Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change… It is the common matrix of every experience. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Stillness Speaks is pleased to offer the Preface and first chapter from Pir Elias Amidon’s book, Th …
Munajat: Benediction, by Pir Elias Amidon
I don’t know where your light comes from or where I end and you begin. ~ Pir Elias Amidon Benediction is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdul …
Munajat: Your Beautiful Composure, by Pir Elias Amidon
Inside the noise my life makes you live in silence. ~ Pir Elias Amidon Your Beautiful Composure is from Munajat a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon, originally inspired by the Munajat — ‘whispered prayers,” or “intimate conversations with God’ — of the 12th Century Persian Sufi, Abdullah An …
Munajat: Sama by Pir Elias Amidon
Munajat: “… a “whispered prayer” … is On its way to endlessness it has no need for hurry. ~ Pir Elias Amidon Munajat is a book of forty prayers, by Pir Elias Amidon. These prayers “… were originally inspired by the Munajat — “whispered prayers.” Enjoy Sama, another of Elias’ intimate conversa …
Pir Elias: The Mysticism of Music
“If we listen closely to the coming-into-and-passing-out-of-being of each sound we can recognize that here is the very creation and renewal of the cosmos.” ~ Pir Elias Pir Elias Amidon explores the mystery of music, What happens when music touches us? What is it that enchants us in the mingling of …
Pir Elias: The Art of Awakening, Part 2 of 2
“…there is a ripening process that spiritual practices can serve, to bring us to a readiness from which we may more easily open beyond path and ripening and preparation.” Pir Elias concludes his essay on the “Art of Awakening” by exploring this key question: What, then, does it take for a spiritua …
Pir Elias: The Art of Awakening, Part 1 of 2
“Looking for it, the vision cannot be seen: cease your search … It cannot be accomplished by anything you do … It cannot be found by seeking, so abandon all hope of results …” ~ Shabkar Lama Pir Elias Amidon explores three significant questions in Part 1 of this 2-part compelling series: If we …
Munajat: The Quiet by Pir Elias Amidon
Munajat: “… a “whispered prayer” … is love-talk evoking the nearness of divine reality … ~ Pir Elias Amidon Enjoy another of Elias’ intimate conversations with God! …
Pir Elias Amidon: Munajat – Forty Prayers: In The Cathedral
“On the one hand {a “whispered prayer,” or “intimate conversation with God” is a} … love-talk evoking the nearness of divine reality, and on the other hand it can’t help but go mute as it points to the unspeakable majesty of the Real …” ~ Elias Amidon Enjoy one of Elias’ intimate conversation wi …
Pir Elias: Meditations on Nondual Awakening
“Open now into the clear presence of this moment … silent and open …” ~ Elias Amidon Free Medicine – Meditations on Nondual Awakening, is a recently published book by a “soon to be added” teacher: Pir Elias Amidon. Connie Shaw, the publisher, graciously offered 3 chapters, as a PDF, for free dow …
Pir Elias: Acceptance, Silence, Awe, & More …
“… accept things exactly as they are, including your wanting them to be different. In that acceptance, a way forward is gently given …” ~ Pir Elias In this beautiful and profound post, guest author, Pir Elias Amidon, shares some “suggestions and aphorisms” on acceptance, silence, awe, and more … …