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“Perhaps the small, elderly brother mutely splitting firewood and stacking it in a buckling, corrugated-iron water tank was heard in Heaven more compellingly than the rest of us put together. Maybe there comes a time when the one who lives to pray at last steps over an invisible threshold and into a place where liturgical form, word and gesture dissolve. Where feeding scraps of stale bread to a young magpie translates into intercession that is as fervent as it is unobserved, as effective as it is inexplicable.”

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Book:The Abbot’s Shoes: Seeking a Contemplative Life
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“Practicing silence periods daily works for your mind in the same way that anti-virus software and firewalling protect your computer against virus attacks. Silence or mouna, practiced daily, helps prevent wasteful, debilitating, thoughts and emotions like anger, greed, jealousy, hatred, self-pity, self-doubt, guilt, fear, worry and such from invading your mind. mouna firewalls your thinking and helps you stay anchored – happily, peacefully, in the now.”

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Author:AVIS Viswanathan
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“I have nowhere to return to. It's like a state of imprisonment. The walls of the cell are the horizon of what I can see. Beyond them exists a world that's alien to me and doesn't belong to me. So for people like me the only thing possible is here and now, for every future is doubtful, everything yet to come is barely sketched and uncerain, like a mirage that can be destroyed by the slightest twitch of the air. That's what was going through my mind as we sat there in silence. It was better than a conversation.”

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Book:Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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