Listening from the Heart of Silence

A collection of texts marrying nondual wisdom and psychotherapy.  A valuable book for those interested in being more fully in life and being more fully present with the people and situations that make it up.

With texts by:

John Prendergast, Kenneth Bradford, Judith Blackstone, Dorothy Hunt, Peter & Penny Fenner, Kaisa Puhakka, David Loy, and Mariana Caplan

Highly recommend this book

What Is Our Life About

by Ezra Bayda

OUR ASPIRATION, OUR CALLING, our desire for a genuine life,

is to see the truth of who we really are; that the nature of our Being is

connectedness and love, not the illusion of a separate self to which our suffering clings.

It is from this awareness that Life can flow through us; the Unconditioned

manifesting freely as our conditioned body.

And what is the path?

To learn to reside in whatever life presents.  To learn to attend to all those things

that block the flow of a more open life; and to see them as the very path to

awakening all the constructs, the identities, the holding back, the protections, all

the fears, the self-judgments, the blame; all that separates us from letting life be.

And what is the path?

To turn away from constantly seeking comfort and from trying to avoid pain.

To open to the willingness to just be, in this very moment, exactly as it is.

No longer so ready to be caught in the relentlessly spinning mind.  Life is about

awakening to the true Self: no one special to be, nowhere to go, just Being.

We are so much more than just this body, just this personal drama.

As we cling to our fear, and our shame, and our suffering, we forsake the gratitude

of living from our natural being.  So where, in this very moment, do we cling to our views?

Softening around the mind’s incessant judgement, we can awaken the heart that

seeks to be awakened.

And when the veil of separation rises, Life simply unfolds as it will.

No longer caught in the self-centered dream, we can give ourselves to other, like a

white bird in the snow.

Time is fleeting.

Don’t hold back.

Appreciate this precious life.