Right now I feel the need of lots of quiet, meditative time, a need that is supported by my wife but not my culture or my own head at times. I often feel bombarded by a culture that tells me I will feel less stress if I do more, own this or that, achieve fame or have more money. In my life I have tried those things and found they did not work. Silence, love, service and humility have worked and cost me nothing other than focus. Noone profits in terms of money — yet I feel rich. “From everywhere, it seems, we are bombarded with the idea that our nature is innately violent, that our chief preoccupation is with our sexuality, and that our main purpose in life is the acquirement of ever more nifty possessions.......Indeed, it is only through the practice of inner silence that we can begin to disentangle ourselves from our culture and its illusions. (Silence: Our Eye On Eternity, by Daniel A. Seeger)
