Jake and Noel reflect on the contemplative life as resting in the truth of reality. They discuss the transformative impact of silence. referencing a retreat with executives who profoundly valued eating in silence. Who knew that silence could speak so much?

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Jake and Noel discuss Herman Hesse’s perspective on creation as a discharge of the living soul and the human need to make our mark, connecting creation to the desire to communicate the incommunicable and so feel less alone. They explore the distinction between loneliness and solitude on the spiritual path.

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Show notes:

In its origin a poem is something completely unequivocal. It is a discharge, a call, a cry, a sigh, a gesture, a reaction by which the living soul seeks to defend itself from or to become aware of an emotion, an experience. In this first spontaneous most important function no poem can be judged. It speaks first of all simply to the poet himself, it is his cry, his scream, his dream, his smile, his whirling fists.

(by Hermann Hesse)

Loneliness is the pain of being alone

Solitude is the glory of being alone

(John Moriarty)

The pain of being alone is not being able to share your ideas with other people

(John Moriarty)

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Noel and Jake exchange on the transformative nature of listening, defining it as an empathetic and tender act requiring presence and a willingness to be changed by the other person, citing Jake's reflection on an encounter with Henk and Noel’s reference to King Solomon's request for a listening heart.

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Listening

Listening is a form of worship,

but you don't have to kneel

on the floor with folded hands

or mouth the perfect prayer.

Just open the door of yourself

to another, become the space

they step through to show

you who they are. This is

holiness: two people seated

together on the pew of a park

bench, or the altar of a

kitchen table. Even if no one

says a word for a while,

receive the silence until it's

like a new language only the

two of you can speak.

(by James Crews)

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