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  Yutori The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music As always, with our love. George & Matilda

So much to do, so little time.  To live the contemplative life amidst all the pressure and challenges of daily living is no mean feat. From experience I know that paradoxically, the busier my life becomes, the quieter I need to be. The moment the pace picks up is exactly the time to listen to the still, small voice. It is not so much frantic activity that provides the solution as entering into the silence. Then it is very important not to neglect my meditation practice. The latter helps especially in discerning what is important and how to go about in planning my day. It centres me and guides me in finding my place once again within the wider order of things. I constantly forget that. I become anxious and frantic and tend to follow another rule: When in darkness or in doubt Run in circles, scream and shout It does not help. It drains me and leaves me empty. Ever so gently I am returning to my breathing and the quiet and the listening. In the process I find couns...

Photograph by Brian Sano There is more to life than increasing its speed.                                                                 Gandhi  In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds.  If he can keep us engaged in “muchness” and “manyness,” he will rest satisfied.  Psychiatrist Carl Jung once remarked, “Hurry is not of the Devil; it is the Devil.”                                                                            Richard J. Foster