This article was first published in Findhorn News September 1972.

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At 8:30 in the morning, before the community begins its various activities, we gather together in the Sanctuary for a time of sharing in silence. This ten minutes or so of inner blending in meditation is opened and closed by various members of the community. Two people volunteer to do this for six days of the week and the seventh day, Sunday, is reserved for either the words of David Spangler or the words of Elixir read from God Spoke to Me.

Many of the community take the opportunity of offering something that has inspired them, sometimes thoughts expressed in prose or poetry, or readings, dances, songs or a combination of these. The variety of these forms reflects the fact that here we have people of all ages, from many ways of life and many spiritual paths.

A representative selection is given here of the words that have been spoken to accompany our morning meditations together during the last several months.

In some, the Divine is spoken of as being revealed in people together, in community.

My family, something moves me today to put a name to my feelings, the creative enthusiasm, the excitement of discovery of ourselves, of our relationship with each other, with each moment. Each of us responds to Findhorn in a special way — I also — and I would like to share that with you. You may have heard of the Blessed Mountain; it is the highest mountain in the world. Should you reach the summit, you would have only one desire and that is to descend and be with those who dwell in the deepest valley. That is why it is called the Blessed Mountain.

For some, nature indicates a pattern for men’s lives.

In nature, if we attune to the Divine rhythm, ecological balance is kept. Likewise in each of us this rhythm seeks to express itself and if we commune with this rhythm, we are carried beyond ourselves into realms of greater glory. But resistance to this rhythm causes suffering and the phenomenon of pain. May we each in our meditations blend the rhythm of our own being with this Divine rhythm and carry this light and love into our work this day.

This is one example of the many spiritual pathways and heritages that are included.

The greatness of action, say the Yogis, is measured by the depth of inaction from which it springs. Let us now therefore release ourselves from the level of action and become aware of the vast realm of inaction, of peace and stillness, that stands behind it and is forever at our disposal.

On several mornings we were asked to participate in action as well as in silence.

Take the hands of the people alongside of you and look into the eyes of one of them saying, “Hello God.” Now I would like us all to carry this forth during the day and recognise the divine being that each one of us is.

On another morning, the action that lies within silence was highlighted.

A person can communicate many things in silence, so now and throughout the day listen to what others are saying in the silence.

Sometimes we are invited to let our meditations unfold from a few images presented simply.

The Oneness which I am shines everywhere. It is translucent in the sky, imminent in the plant, carried by the breeze. It breaks forth as power in fire, it seeks its own level in water, as I seek in all life to be One. I am that One.

At other times the briefest image opens to vast transcendent thought.

Life is like a river, never ending, ever flowing. It does not question its source of energy, and in so doing, works in harmony with His will.