With practice the mind stills and the Inner Light shines through …
The Quiet Place offers an open, safe and free-to-use space to be in silence.
Everyone is welcome to come to practice peace and cultivate inner harmony.
Offerings
The Quiet Place is open for the following:
Sit in Silence
Practice your own seated meditation.
Or simply sit in silence.
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Vipassana Meditation
For those who have completed at least one ten-day silent course in the tradition of S.N.Goenka.
Groups.
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Breath Meditation
Learn and practice simple, seated meditation based in breath-awareness.
Led in groups.
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Metta Bhavana
Loving kindness meditation.
Led in groups.
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The Yoga Surgery
Support and direction in developing your own independent spiritual practice, based in the principles of Classical Yoga applied to modern life.
One-to-One tuition/guidance.
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Hatha Yoga
Learn and practice the yoga of body and breath.
Integrate postures and breath as preparation and support for seated practice.
Led in small groups.
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Workshops
Learning and working together around specific themes, principles and practices relating to spiritual development.
Led in small groups.
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Rhythm
The Quiet Place is open daily from early morning to late evening.
Other than allocated sessions, as below, all hours are “Sit in Silence”.
The rhythms of The Quiet Place are establishing and subject to change. Changes will be updated here as soon as possible.
| Day | Timing | Practice | |
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| Sun | 09.00 > 10.15 | Vipassana | |
| Mon | 09.00 > 09.30 | Breath | |
| 18.00 > 18.30 | Breath | ||
| Tues | 09:00 > 11.00 | Yoga Surgery | |
| 18:00 > 20.00 | Yoga Surgery | ||
| Wed | 09.00 > 10.15 | Hatha Yoga | |
| Thu | 09.00 > 10.00 | Loving Kindness | |
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The Quiet Place may be closed at random times.
Arrive
Behind the boat in El Morreon.
Look up to the right and you will see an old wooden gate.
Go through here and you will find The Quiet Place.
Please do not enter the finca beyond the terrace.
Please keep the gate and both doors closed.
Please note:
The dog may bark but he is very friendly.
His name is Iago (as in “Santiago”).\
Connect
peace [@] thequietplace [.] info
Telegram Group Chat - Private, please request to get an invite
Silence is Golden
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Arabic Proverb.
The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
Rumi.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin Disraeli.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Will Rogers.
Things that are real are given and received in Silence.
Meher Baba.
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.
Deepak Chopra.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light.
Gandhi.
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence.
Yoga Sutras 01.02.
Silence is the language of God.
Dag Hammarskjöld.
Silence vibrating is Creation.
Santideva.
Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain.
J. Krishnamurti.
There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.
A Course in Miracles.
The self is that where there is absolutely no 'I' thought. That is called Silence.
Ramana Maharshi.
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu.
Remember, in the face of Mystery, silence ultimately alone will do.
Ken Wilber.
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
Sri Aurobindo.
There is something beyond our mind which abides in silence within our mind.
Maitri Upanishad.
Real action is done in moments of silence.
Emerson.
Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.
Eckhart Tolle.
For the ignorant there is no better rule than silence and if he knew its advantage he would not be ignorant.
Saadi.
No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence.
Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity.
Lao Tzu.
The closest thing to Truth in this world ... is silence.
Unknown.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch.
Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
Spanish proverb.
Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson.
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal
Once you mature, you realize silence is more powerful than proving a point.
Unknown.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
Maurice Switzer
There is a time to speak and a time to keep silent.
Ecclesiastes 3:7.
Silence speaks louder than words.
Thomas Carlyle.
Silence is the most potent form of work.
Ramana Maharshi.