In today’s world of instant gratification, on-demand information and entertainment saturation, how many of us stop to nourish our silent source within?
We wake up to alarm clocks ringing in our ears.... We read the paper while eating breakfast, make phone calls while driving to work. When we go for a walk or run, we don’t leave without taking our iPod.... We have created such a God of activity in our world that we have largely forgotten one of the most fundamental tenets of life — that inseparable from all intelligent, evolutionary activity is ‘non-activity’. Everything in our universe is built on the cycles of activity and rest, rest and activity. We have day and then night, inhalation and then exhalation, heart pump, then heart relax. Claude Debussy once said, ‘Music is the space between the notes.’ Just as it is in the spaces that music gets created...it is only in the spaces between our thoughts that we can truly enjoy the ‘music in our lives.’
Om Namah Shivay.
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