New way begun, Part Two,from the heart-

Reaching for the heart and soul of humanity~
can you hear my heart beating?

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Wonderful summary Sandy….

There are so many callings in our saturated world…

The call for riches and fame… and all of those wonderful false dreams that take us down the road to hell…

Children loving Hanna Montana… now that the Spice Girls are too old…
Needing the newest and greatest toys…
Barbie dolls with tattoos
Make-up and condoms and treating children like they are mature adults…

The heart is heard in silence… something that children do not get enough of… Silence with our own hearts… listening to the voice within… instead of being saturated with the noises that surround us… 

We are all children of the heart… and the voice of love, and truth, and community is always there… as we get older, it starts to yell louder, for us to hear ….

We should teach our children the power of meditation and prayer… to find the play of joy from within… and to pursue that joy… and the voices of our spirits… 

We should help our children to sit quietly, reading a book, or playing a musical instrument… something that soothes the heart… 

It does not matter if we live in the city, in a village, a monastery or a cave… what matters is that we know the intense magnitude of silence… and reflection… and that we will always hear the most meaningful messages in silence… the messages that take us on our journey of purpose… and hopefully to steer us away from the road to hell.

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Thankyou Dave -and thankyou for your very moving post~
so wise and true.
Children do not get enough silence, do they-
as you say they are saturated with noise and cannot hear the voice within.

The sounds of silence are very precious and thought provoking, I guess
we should enourage more places of contemplation ?
For those who do not know how to silence their world and listen to their hearts.

Little rooms/shelters of silence, dotted around the cities, the schools,
bus and train stations-everywhere -that would work I think?

Can we start a campaign -I wonder ???

Ever in loving hope!!

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Sandy… now that is a campaign worth the greatest activism… The 'Can you hear the silence?' campaign… or “Quiet time for kids”… or the infamous “Sounds of Silence”.. we could even license the theme song!

I like it!

Sssh.. there are more good ideas in your heart.

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Yes, Dave -it would be a great campaign, wouldn't it?

Shall we do it?

I am “hushing and shushing” and hearing good ideas to bring this
into being…

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I'm soo trendy
My next gig is two hours of music for a private view at an art exhibition. I will be playing as quietly as possible so as to aid the contemplation of the visual art.
( Loud music is not exciting anyway, it is the changing of dynamics between loud and soft that creates tension. Loud music is just loud.)

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Let's do it!  We could create a video of silent meditation, in the middle of the busiest places on earth…. :)  KES could help us… she is a master film maker.

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Sounds beautiful Chaparral (you trendsetter you!)

Yes Dave -let's do it indeed, I have lots of ideas too-
shall we start a web site??
And a video sounds like a great idea -
where shall we do our planning?

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Of course there are many ideas to share, and that we have already shared
in our previous thread-
and I really would LOVE to put them into practice.
Would anyone like to do more, or are we all happy just to discuss
our theories -and put them into cyber-space?

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While we may not have made a video -yet -
we can still continue our discussion -can we not?

In Australia, many are objecting to the War Games about to begin.
We see no reason for their to be “games” when real war is all around us!
See link in the Pro-Peace thread re Talisman Sabre 09.
These people are friends of mine and there will be more of these actions
throughout the “games”.
For those of us who can't travel to them, we are holding actions and vigils in
our cities.
How do other people feel about this -I wonder???