Meditations | silenttogether

Day of Chosen Silence

March Meditation, 2024

Every morning I randomly open up my Tao Te Ching. Yesterday I opened to this chapter: Everyone is drawn to those who keep the one, For...

February Meditation, 2024

Instead of detention, these students get meditation. This school district in Baltimore, as well as other schools in the United States,...

January Meditation, 2024

This Sunday we gladly meet in the heart of silence, and pray together. Dear friend Mary Oliver invites us to slow down and Be with this...

December Meditation, 2023

“My friends, do not lose heart… Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able vessels in the waters than there are right now...

November Meditation, 2023

I am often surprised by the experience of my monthly day of silence. It seems like some kind of insight or new, subtle awareness comes...

October Meditation, 2023

Peri and I received this from our dear friend Liz Davis. The poem speaks of silence from a different angle. Her own experience of this...

September Meditation, 2023

My last day of silence was more sublime than many. For some reason I really took the day to “dial out” – I slept in later than usual,...

August Meditation, 2023

Barbara and Koa "The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't fully been recognized. They keep millions of people sane. When...

July Meditation, 2023

Painting by Barbara Cecil “My boat struck something deep. Nothing happened. Sound, silence, waves. Nothing happened? Or perhaps,...