Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence IV

 
 
Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence IV 
 
 

 

 
 

 
 
“I love this!”
 

Bina Belani
 
 
“Awesome” 
 
Jay Kotek 
 
Free lance writer and
author of the poetry book
“Clouds of Dreams” and
“India. My Beloved”,
born in India,
lives in USA
 
 
  


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.” 

GITEN
 

 

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.”
 

GITEN 
 
 
 
 

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.” 

 






GITEN  
 
 
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.”
 
GITEN
 
 
 

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.” 
 
GITEN 
 
 

 
 
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.”
 
 
GITEN
 
 

 
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.”
 
GITEN
 
 
 

 

 
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.
 
GITEN  
 


 
 
 
 
 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.”
 
GITEN
 
 


 

 
 
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.”

 

GITEN
 
 
 
 
 

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.
 

 
GITEN
 
 
 
 
  

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.”
 
 
GITEN 



 
 
 
 

Intuition – 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.  

 
 
 

Read Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence I on Giten’s blog 

 http://authorscribe.com/giten/2012/09/26/giten-quotes-on-the-language-of-silence/
 
 
Read Giten Quotes on The Language of Silence II on Giten’s blog
http://authorscribe.com/giten/2012/10/16/giten-quotes-on-the-language-of-silence-ii/