GITEN QUOTES ON THE LANGUAGE OF SILENCE

GITEN ON BEING ONE WITH THE WHOLE

"I was 9 years old when I had my first glimpse of wholeness. It was early Christmas morning and I was standing in my pajamas in the living room and looked out of the large windows. Outside the white snow flakes silently singled down toward a snowclad landscape. Suddenly I was filled with a feeling of being one with the slowly dancing snowflakes, one with the silent landscape.

I did not understand then that this was my first taste of meditation, but it created a deep thirst and a longing in my heart to return to this natural and effortless experience of being one with the Whole."

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GITEN ON DIVINE UNSATISFACTION

"I remember an insight that taught me much about life. One day I felt that I had everything that I really wanted in life. I had a creative and meaningful work as a therapist and course leader, I had a relationship with a beautiful woman, who I loved and who loved me, I had friend that I trusted and I had money to do what I wanted.

But in spite of all this, I still had a feeling that there was something missing in my life. I was not satisfied. The thirst and longing in my heart was still searching for something more. It made me realize that the deepest pain in my heart was that I was still separated from the Whole and that no outer things or relationships could ease this pain."

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GITEN ON ENLIGHTENMENT

"When I did a therapist education in USA 1984, one of the course leaders – who had given personal and spiritual guidance to thousands of seekers of truth from all over the world, and who I consider to be one of the best spiritual therapists in the world – said that I was going to get enlightened, that I would ”disappear into the silence”.

I did not really understand what he meant then, and it was totally absurd for me when other course participants congratulated me afterwards. The thought that I was going to be enlightened was totally absurd for me. For me enlightenment was something that happened to special and chosen persons like Osho, Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu and Krishnamurti. I did not feel either special or chosen. I did not feel worthy of being enlightened."

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GITEN ON BEING ONE WITH NATURE, ONE WITH THE TREES AND ONE WITH THE PEOPLE

I had a magical day during one Sunday when I walked out in nature. On the outside this day only consisted of taking a walk out in the beautiful sunny weather and cleaning my apartment, but on the inside everything suddenly changed. When I walked out in nature in the sunny weather, a silent explosion suddenly happened within me and my whole perception of reality changed.

In a single moment, everything had changed, although nothing on the outside had really changed. Everything on the outside was exactly as before, but my way of seeing had changed. The difference was that before I did not see and now I could see. My eyes were open. Suddenly I was one with everything, one with the stones, one with the trees and one with the people that I meet on my walk.

My heart danced with joy together with a feeling of: ”I am God”. Not that I am the creator of everything, but that I am part of the Whole, part of the divine. It felt like coming home, that Existence is my home. I also saw that even if the people that I meet did not understand that they are a part of the Whole, they still are a part of the Whole. I felt the waves of Existence in my own heart and being and I felt like a small wave in a great ocean. It gave a taste of the eternal, a taste of the limitless and boundless source of creativity. In just a few moments, I learnt more than during 20 years in university.

Wisdom is basically the understanding that we all are part of the Whole. We are all small rivers moving towards the ocean. I laughed at the fact that enlightenment is really our innate birthright, and that small children already live in this mystical unity with the Whole."

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GITEN ON EGOLESSNESS

“I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth – the inner language of silence.

Now I also notice that this silence is going deeper, and that I go beyond the ego and disappear into the silence.

First this brought up fear, but now I am enjoying this meditation of disappering into the silence and to be nobody. I have started experimenting with this phenomenon to understand how to consciously go beyond the ego: yesterday when I took a cofee at a restaurant, I consciously turned my attention within and disappeared into the silence, which was like finding an inner source of bliss.

In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, your are not. When I am walking, I consciously experiment with being with Existence without having the mind constantly commenting. I try to just be wordlessly with the people and situations that I meet on my walk.

When I can just be with Existence, it opens the door to be one with the Whole.

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GITEN ON ENLIGHTENMENT

“Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with happiness: you can not force happiness to happen, but you can create the right circumstances for happiness to
happen.

You need to be willing to die, to let go of your limited sense of “I”, to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to die, to dissolve into the silence, in my heart and being.”

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GITEN ON SILENCE AND HEALING

“Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens.

In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear, loneliness and frustration.”

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GITEN ON DEATH AND ALONENESS

“Aloneness has been my constant companion in life. I lost early the people that I loved: first when my young and unmarried biological mother had to leave me because of outer circumstances. I was adopted by a very loving couple, who could not concieve a child. I have always felt naturally loved by them, and I have never really felt that I was adopted. Instead, I have always felt that I did a little detour to be able to be adopted by my real parents.

Then my mother died when I was 15 years old after a long sickness. On her funeral I took the decision to never depend on anybody again. Her death created such a deep pain in me that it was also the death of relationships for me. Then my father died when I was 21 years old – and I was completely alone in the world. This created a basic feeling of being alone and unloved in me, it created early a feeling of independence and self-suffiency in me. It also created a basic feeling of not trusting that I am alright as I am, and of not trusting that life takes care of me.

This created such a pain in me that I simply repressed the pain for many years in order to survive. These early meetings with death also created a thirst in me to discover a quality, an inner awareness, that death could not take away.

Now I can see that these early painful experiences are a blessing in disguise. It liberated me from relationships. I relate with people, but there is always an aloneness within me. I realize that a seeker of truth needs to accept that he is totally alone. It is not possible to lean on other people like crutches. When we totally accept our aloneness, it becomes a source of love, joy, truth, silence, meditation and wholeness.

I shared these experiences with a beloved friend and her thoughtful comment was: “I have my own aloneness.”

Aloneness is to be at home in ourselves, to be in contact with our inner source of love, while loneliness is to hanker for other people, to hanker for a source of love outside of ourselves. Aloneness is to come home.”

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GITEN ON BEING ONE WITH EXISTENCE

“It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with Existence. It means to find the whole Existence within myself, it means to discover that Existence is alive in my own heart and being.

The song of a bird echoes my own inner voice, the beauty of a flower reflects my own inner beauty, a dog becomes an expression of my own unconditional love and friendship, the majestic mountains create an exstatic joy, and I discover all the shining stars of the sky within my own heart.

It is to realize that the whole Existence is alive, and that the underlying thread of consciousness is God.

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GITEN ON SAYING “YES” TO WHATEVER HAPPENS IN LIFE

“It has been so much change in my body during the last months that my body got sick during the weekend.

I got a cold with a low fever. I took it as meditation to witness my body, to witness
that my body was sick – and also to listen consciously to what my body needed.
I went into conscious celibacy almost a month ago, so it has been a lot of change in my body. Forced celibacy because of religious morality just leads to sexual neurosis, but I have been using sex as a meditation to try to understand sexuality for many years.

My male ego reacted with fear to this conscious celibacy, but it also means a new integration between my inner male and woman. My inner woman is the door to the depth within myself, to the inner source of love and truth, to being one with life.

Instead of going downwards to sex, my energi is now going upwards to spirituality. It has been a letting go of sex, of needing others, of relationships and of the body.

During the sickness, I was also letting go of my deep seated fears of not being loved and of being fundamentally alone in the world.

It has been a meditation to say “yes” to whatever happens in life.”

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GITEN ON COMMITTMENT TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH

“Our spiritual growth depend on our committment to our spiritual growth. Without a basic committment to our spiritual growth, we will just go around in a circle, reaching nowhere. People can be categorized in three categories: sleeping, drowsy and awakened.

One of my beautiful students, a bright man in his thirties, who was a Tibetan monk in a previous life, travels for 4 hours once a month to meet me in Stockholm for spiritual guidance, to explore what is the current topic in his life right now and to see what is the next step in his spiritual growth.

I also recommend awareness exercises and meditation practises in the in-between time until the next time that we see each other the next month. This time he commented that he had practiced the methods that I had recommended the last time to become aware of the ego, the separated sense of “I”, and to move from “I” to not-I, to move from ego to egolessness. He commented that he could not believe the progress that he had made.”

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GITEN ON THE OCEAN OF CONSCIOUSNESS

"During the weekend I did a Buddhist meditation- and ceremony to take the wow to help all sentient beings on the spiritual path.

During this meditation, I invited enlightened Masters as Buddha, Osho, Jesus, Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharshi to learn from their commitment to help all living beings on the spiritual path, and to become more aware about the the difference in love, joy and satisfaction in only gratifying your own ego and self-interests and being available for others.

Being with these guys, my whole consciousness suddenly changed, and I was suddenly in contact with the invisible ocean of consciousness that these guys transmitted. I suddenly felt how my own consciousness expanded into the limitless and boundless inner source of creativity. Suddenly I did not know where the boundaries of my own body was anymore.

Jesus would have described this with the words: “I and the Father are one”, Buddha would have called it nirvana and Osho would describe it as pure consciousness without any clouds. This is also what Jesus meant by “heaven”, which is not a physical place, where we come after death – if we are lucky. The “heaven” that Jesus talked about is the inner heaven of our own consciousness, it is the ocean of consciousness."

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GITEN ON WALKING IN ONENESS

“I took a walk out in nature yesterday, when suddenly my whole world changed. First I walked out in nature among the flowers, the trees and the people that I meet who was out walking their dogs – and I was separated from them.
But suddenly my whole perception changed - like I suddenly saw the young girl in the picture with the old woman – and I was suddenly one with the flowers, the trees, the air and the people and the dogs that I meet.

It was the same world, but suddenly it was totally different. Everything was the same, but I saw it in a new and fresch way.

I laughed about being one with the dogs that I meet on my walk.

Then I experienced a strong fear coming from my legs. I felt that my ego, the separated sense of “I”, was afraid of this experience, because the ego lives in separation from life.

It was also a very easy and natural experience. I got a very clear feeling that this is the reality and experience of the seventh chakra of oneness and wholeness, which is our innate birthright.”

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GITEN ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACTIVITY AND INNER SILENCE

“I had a day when I was busy in the world, where the activity created a turmoil on the surface of my consciousness like waves on the surface of the ocean, which made it difficult to see through the waves to the inner silence.

It reminded me that we need to develop both the capacity to use the mind when engaged in activity and social relations, and to be able to let go of the activity and to come in contact with the deep inner silence.

The relationship between being active in the world and in social relations and the inner silence is like the relationship between the waves on the surface of the ocean and the deep inner silence on the bottom of the ocean.

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GITEN ON THE CELESTIAL MUSIC

"During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and being one with the wind is like listening to the celestial music."

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GITEN ON PRAYER

"I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees outside my open window, whispering a silent and playful invitation: "Do you want to play? Do you want to join the dance?" This playful invitation again joined my heart and being with the Existential dance. I was again in a silent prayer and oneness with life."

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GITEN ON WHOLENESS

"When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy."

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GITEN ON JESUS

A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders of religion are actually talking about the same ocean, the same invisible life source, the same God.

She also said that she worked in a Christan environment at the time that she received these insights, and when she tried to share these insights with the Christians she was accused of being "impure" and of being associated with the "Devil".

Christians hold on to the idea that Jesus was the only son of God, without realizing that we are all son's and daughter's of God. By holding on to the idea that Jesus is the only son of God, they do not either to realize that all enlightened Masters are talking about the same God.

Jesus did not talk about faith, he talked about trust. He talked about discovering a trust in yourself and in relationship to God. Jesus said that the kingdom of God is within you. In Christianity, the church has become the intermediate between man and God, and people who claim that they have found a direct relationship to God are accused of blasphemy. The Christan church has become a barrier between man and God, and anyone who has declared that he has found a direct relationship to God are immediately banned by the church, for example Master Eckhart and Franciskus of Assisi.

I have always had a deep love for Jesus, but it is not the picture of Jesus that the Christian church presents. I was a disciple of Jesus in a former life, and was thrown to the lions in Colosseum in Rome as one of the early Christians. Jesus had many more disciples than the twelve disciples mentioned in The Bible.

In this life, I resigned my automatic membership in the church as soon as I could think for myself when I was 15 years old. I was also disgusted with an organization that said that they preached love and which has murdered more people than Hitler.

My experience with these rare and precious insights are that they expand our consciousness of reality. They are gradual initiations into reality. They may fade away, but we will never be the same again after receiving them. They will also come more and more, the more committment we have to our spiritual growth."

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GITEN ON WORKING WITH PEOPLE AND SILENCE

"What I basically listen to when I work with a group of people is when the moment becomes silent. Then I know that we are entering the dimension of love, truth and wholeness."

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GITEN ON LOVE AND ALONENESS

"Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness. In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, you are not.

I have always been comfortable with my own aloneness as an inner source of love, joy, truth, silence and wholeness.

When we depend on other people, it becomes a bondage - instead of a freedom. I took this sunday as a meditation to be consciously alone, and to accept all feelings of pain, of not being loved and the fear of being nobody that would come up during the meditation. This meditation goes up and down during the day: at certain moments, I can totally accept my aloneness. It feels fine to accept that I am alone and that I am nobody. At other moments, I feel the pain of not being loved, when the meditation brings up how dependence on other people is a barrier to totally accept my aloneness.

I take a coffee at a restaurant. I am the only person that sits alone in the restaurant, while the other guests are couples and families eating sunday dinner. It brings up painful feelings of not being loved and wanting to be needed by other people, when I see how much people cling to each other in the couples and the families.

Escaping your aloneness through relationships and needing other people's attention through being a teacher, a politician or by being rich or famous, are ways of escaping the pain of aloneness. But then the relationships are not really love. Only when you are capable of being alone, you can really love.

When we can be alone, we discover the inner source of love, which is our true nature. When we can be alone, it open the door to be one with the Whole."

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GITEN ON GOD

"Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean.

In meditation, I feel how my inner being expands into an inner ocean, which is part of everything, which is one with Existence.

Through the inner being, we come in contact with the inner ocean, the undefined and boundless within ourselves, where we are one with life. We realize that God is part of life. We realize that God is not a person, but the consciousness that is part of everything. We find God in a flower, in a tree, in the eyes of a child or in a playful dog.

Through discovering our inner being, we discover that we are also part of the flower, the child or the dog. We realize that God is everywhere."

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GITEN ON SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AT MCDONALDS

"Believe it or not, but spiritual insight can come even while drinking coffee at McDonalds.

I took a quiet cup of coffee at McDonalds and when I left the shop, one of these precious moments happ
ened. Suddenly my whole perspective of reality changed from separation to wholeness.

I experienced a unity and belongingness with all people that I meet. I experienced that I was one with all people and that all people come from the same invisible source. People have their own unique individuality, but they come from the same source. It is diversity in unity. It was a sheer joy to walk around and experience that I was one with all the people that I meet."

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GITEN ON INTUITION,THE LANGUAGE OF SILENCE

"Intuition is the language of silence, the Existential language. The word "in-tuition" means to listen within yourself. Intuition is the silent voice within, which is already in contact with the Existence. Intuition is the voice of God.

The more you come in contact with the inner silence, the inner emptiness, the more you have access to your intuition. Silence is the nourishment for intuition.

If something increases your love, joy and silence, it is the criterion that it is the right path for you. If something decreases your love, joy and silence, it is a sign that you are on the wrong path.

Do not compare yourself with others when it comes to take a decision about what you should do, follow the love, joy and silence of your heart and inner being. When you are in contact with your inner silence, you just know what you should do - you do not have to think about it, and you do not need not compare the pros and cons - you just know.

You can listen to the advice of others, but always listen to your intuition, to your inner teacher and guide in life, when you take the final decision. The intuition, the language of silence, will always lead your right."

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GITEN ON ACCEPTANCE

"I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that I do not trust that life takes care of me. But now I discover a silent place in the depth of my inner being, where I am already one with life, where I am OK as I am.

It is also a silent inner place of healing and wholeness, where I can find a love and acceptance for that which is imperfect within myself."

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GITEN ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL HEAD ATTITUDE AND ENLIGHTENMENT

"In my individual therapy- and meditation programes, I explore with the clients the difference between the personality, the psychological "I", and the inner being, the authentic self, the soul, the meditative quality within, the inner capacity to surrender to life.

I also work with the client to become aware about their basic psychological head attitude. The psychological head attitude is the load-bearing beam of the personality, the psychological "I". The psychological head attitude is the basic decision that we have taken about ourselves, about other people and about our basic relationship to life, which unconsciously affects our relation to ourselves, our relationships to other people, our relationship to work and creativity and our relationship to life as a whole.

It was also an insight when I realized that head attitude is also a basic barrier to becoming enlightened, so now I also work with my students to become aware of the psychological head attitude in order to gradually prepare the mind for enlightenment.

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GITEN ON ONENESS

"We are basically all one. We are one being, one consciousness, one whole. We are all connected to each other. We are all parts of the same whole.

How we treat others are how we treat ourselves. If we treat others badly, we are really treating ourselves badly. If we hate others, we are really hating ourselves. If we love others, we are basically loving ourselves."

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GITEN ON EDUCATION

"My beautiful mother was so wild in school that the boys in her class shoot her in the foot with an air gun. One day I came home from school when I was 14 years old, and felt that I never want to go back to school again. I have always rebelled in authoritarian systems, with a hidden agenda of controlling and conditioning the students to become obedient servants for the social order and for society. To get some parental opposition, I told my mother: "I will never go back to school again!". The answer that I got from her was: "I would never do that either".

If education would be real, it would help the students to know who they are. It would teach the students meditation, so that the students can find their own intelligence, love, trust, understanding, truth, wisdom, silence and creativity. But real intelligence is always rebellious, and society do not really want intelligent people, because they are difficult to manipulate and control.

In the career programes of the university, in the the business administration-, economy- and law programes, there is no emphasis on personal maturity, which create a lack of responsibility and awareness in the students. This is especally alarming since the students of these programes will be the coming leaders of society. A friend of mine calls the students of the business administration programe in Stockholm for "empty shells", since there is only emphasis on the superficial surface, but there is no real depth and content.

This lack of real education is one the basic reasons for the state the world is in right now, where more and more people think that the ackopalyps, the end of the world, is coming closer."

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GITEN ON TRUTH AND ALONENESS

"In the conflict with a spiritual organization, people accuse me of just seeking recognition and friends disappear because they are not in contact with their own truth.

Our ability to respond with the truth of the moment depend on how much we need the approval of other people. Not even our friends or family will always be able to support our truth.

To be able to respond with the truth of the moment, we need to develop the capacity to be alone.

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GITEN ON SHARING

"A friend of mine, who shares my quotes and writings on her Facebook page, told me that her friends and relatives are now beginning to like the quotes.

It is a way to contribute to the Whole to create a better world, and all small rivers are leading to the Ocean."

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INNER SILENCE - 5 EXERCISES

Exercise 1: Letting go

This meditation is about letting go of everything that stands in the way of the inner silence, the inner emptiness. This is not a formal sitting meditation, but a on-going awareness meditation to continously letting go of anger, fear, sadness, frustration and loneliness that stands in the way of the inner silence.

"Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens. In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear, loneliness and frustration."

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Exercise 2:. The Inner Silence in the Moment

The inner silence is always in the moment. This is an awareness exercise, which aims at turning your attention within yourself during moments during the day to come in contact with yourself and the inner silence.

"I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth - the inner language of silence. Now I also notice that this silence is going deeper, and that I go beyond the ego and disappear into the silence. First this brought up fear, but now I am enjoying this meditation of disappering into the silence and to be nobody. I have started experimenting with this phenomenon to understand how to consciously go beyond the ego: yesterday when I took a cofee at a restaurant, I consciously turned my attention within and disappeared into the silence, which was like finding an inner source of bliss."

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Exercise 3: Being dependent on others

Being dependent on other people is a bondage, instead of freedom. This is an awareness exercise to put the light of awareness on how you relate to other people - and whether this relating comes out of bondage or freedom.

"When we depend on other people, it becomes a bondage - instead of a freedom. I took this sunday as a meditation to be consciously alone, and to accept all feelings of pain, of not being loved and the fear of being nobody that would come up during the meditation. This meditation goes up and down during the day: at certain moments, I can totally accept my aloneness. It feels fine to accept that I am alone and that I am nobody. At other moments, I feel the pain of not being loved, when the meditation brings up how dependence on other people is a barrier to totally accept my aloneness.

I take a coffee at a restaurant. I am the only person that sits alone in the restaurant, while the other guests are couples and families eating sunday dinner. It brings up painful feelings of not being loved and wanting to be needed by other people, when I see how much people cling to each other in the couples and the families.

Escaping your aloneness through relationships and needing other people's attention through being a teacher, a politician or by being rich or famous, are ways of escaping the pain of aloneness. But then the relationships are not really love. Only when you are capable of being alone, you can really love.

When we can be alone, we discover the inner source of love, which is our true nature. When we can be alone, it open the door to be one with the Whole."

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Exercise 4: Rejoice in Aloneness

Aloneness is the door to the inner silence, to egolessness. This is a awareness exercise to be consciously alone, to accept and rejoice in your aloneness. During moment during the day, turn your attention within yourself and accept your inner aloneness. Also take time to be with yourself, to be consciously alone with yourself. In aloneness, you are not.

"Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness."

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"I have always been comfortable with my own aloneness as an inner source of love, joy, truth, silence and wholeness."

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"In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, you are not."

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Exercise 5: Walking Consciously

This is a meditation to walk consciously when you are on your way to somewhere. When you walk turn your attention within and walk consciously, be with the people and situation that you meet , instead of having your mind constantly commenting everything. This is a meditation to being with Existence when you walk.

"When I am walking, I consciously experiment with being with Existence without having the mind constantly commenting. I try to just be wordlessly with the people and situations that I meet on my walk. When I can just be with Existence, it open the door to be one with the Whole."

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INTUITION - 3 EXERCISES

Exercise 1: From intellect to intuition

This is an exercise, which aims on learning to distinguish between the mind and the intuition, the language of silence, the inner source of love, truth and wisdom. Take as a continuous meditation to learn to distinguish between the mind, between our ideas of how things should be, and the intuition, our true inner voice, to learn to distinguish between the false and the real, between the true and the artificial.

Exercise 2: Listen to your heart

To continuously be in contact with your heart and with your intuition, you can ask the following four questions in different situations for example when you have to make a choice or when you are going to take a new step:

1. Will I love myself if I do this for example if I take this new step, if I chose this or if I say this.
2. Will I feel courageous?
3. Is it beautiful for me?
4. Can it be simplified in any way?

Exercise 3: To see what the Whole wants

This is an exercise to let go and to see what the Whole wants in a certain issue. When you have compared the pros and cons on a certain issue, then leave the issue to the intuition, to the inner source of love, truth and wisdom, to the voice of Existence within, and see what the Whole wants concerning this issue.

Sometimes Existence responds immediately and sometimes it takes some time before Existence is ready to respond. But you will always receive an answer in exactly the right time. Sometimes I have struggled to get something to happen, but it was first when I let go that it happened by itself. Sometimes things are not meant to happen either. It is a question of timing. It is a question of when the time is ripe. It is a question of trusting the Whole.