Robert Sardello > Quotes

“When we find the entry into this large stillness, our lives are irrevocably changed because at that moment a monumental transition takes place: we find that the center of the universe shifts from our self-interests, even our spiritual self-interests, to the larger world, even to the cosmos, which we now begin to perceive as a spiritual reality.”
― Robert Sardello, Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness

“Letting Silence pervade all we do does work because it never separates itself from the world. Thus we do not make the practice of Silence exclusively into a soul work and go inward, nor exclusively a spiritual work to attain some goal on a spiritual path. The work is to be with Silence itself, and in so doing we are one with soul, spirit, body, and world. When practiced over time, we find it becomes possible to be with Silence in all that we do, and in our doing, our presence in the world works as a healing force.”
― Robert Sardello, Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness

“Silence is autonomous. It is beyond us; our task is to coordinate our being with the greater Being of Silence.”
― Robert Sardello, Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness

“Silence never leaves; we leave the Silence ... Silence has nothing to do with the absence of sound. It is a palpable presence. We experience Silence most easily within the natural world ... To notice it daily, we have to learn how to notice ... Attention is different than thought and it is different than "paying attention". ... pour your attention into that quality of feeling lightly touched. You will find it hard to leave.”
― Robert Sardello

“Silence is not emptiness but an alert unfocusing focus on subtle rhythms that join our interiority to the natural world.”
― Robert Sardello, Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness

“Noticing what is already spiritually present requires the capacity of free forces of attention.”
― Robert Sardello

“Evidence of the presence of the spiritual world is always individual in character but general in resonance. I may not experience the exact content of spiritual presence as that which is bodily felt by another, but can feel the resonance when I am receptively open to another's description of spiritual experience.”
― Robert Sardello

“When capital moves to finance, economic life is on the way to destruction. Finance has nothing to do with economic life as a whole. It is an imitation or double of economic life consisting of using money to make money—all cerebral activity with no world. 89

A gift has an unknown future because nothing is expected in return and no specification is made concerning its outcome. 91”
― Robert Sardello, Facing the World with Soul: The Reimagination of Modern Life

“When we pray it is usually for something that we do not have. It is a strange way to pray, for our attention is then removed from the fullness of what is already present and we only attend to what is not here, hoping that our prayers will be answered -- when they are in fact already answered.”
― Robert Sardello

“There must be more to stones than science can account for. Every worker with stones intuitively knows this is so.”
― Robert Sardello, Steps on the Stone Path: Working with Crystals and Minerals as a Spiritual Practice