Emotions are not a problem until we start thinking about them. Emotions want to be pondered, discussed, preserved, chewed on, bowed to, fussed over, explained. They need thought to survive. They need words.
Tag Archives: no-thought
Good housekeeping
We clean our windows, light shines in. We stop thinking, light shines out.
Equanimous
Rare is the man who has no dependencies and, therefore, no anxiety; who can let come what comes and let go what goes.
The art of listening
Listening is awareness without thought. Practically, this means not thinking while the person to whom I am listening is speaking.
Awareness without thought is a state of radical openness. Saints call it prayer. Secularists call it consciousness. (And really, aren’t labels useless?)
First, I am a space for you. Then we are a space for each other.
Words are not necessary for communication.
More words count less.
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