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yogani
USA
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 Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 1:46:17 PM
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Excerpt from an email interchange:
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Q: ...How do I move in the world to help create positive change without fueling the very thing I am trying to help change? I am thinking that there must be a subtle change in the energy with which I act and think about it, but I can't put my finger on it.
A: Stand up for what you believe in, while cultivating inner silence each day. And consider the lives and works of people like Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
Move as stillness moves, not as fear would have you move.
The guru is in you.
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Etherfish
USA
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 8:01:05 PM
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And I would also suggest mother Teresa. She said:
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
and:
"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls."
and:
"It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters."
and
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
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brushjw
USA
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Posted - Apr 11 2008 : 10:18:31 PM
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When I first read this question the quote from Ghandi came to mind: "We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
The questioner seems to sense that the path leading to Stillness entails and effects change. I have found the implosion of peace resulting from repeatedly touching the place of Stillness inside results in an explosion of love that others sense. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that compares to the feeling of serving others from this place of Stillness.
"...[S]tillness is moving beyond the initial stage of witnessing when it joins the dance in earnest. And the dance is called "Service." - Yogani
Serve others from a place of Stillness and you will create positive change. This is an application of Yogani's persistent theme of favoring the practice over the results.
aum namaste,
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Divineis
Canada
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Posted - Apr 12 2008 : 01:35:48 AM
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:) I just had a convo not too long ago with a friend from work. It basically came down to "world peace starts on the small scale, between me and you".
It's so simple, it's simplicity itself :).
I have a few what I'd call "life changing speeches" haha. "Ego\everything is one" sort of stuff. That stuff is cool, I like talking about it every now and then, some people really dig it. To be honest though, just a smile to a stranger, anything acknowledging "no worries, we're all on the same team, life has it's troubles, I understand"... a compassionate smile says it all.
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