TEA AND ZEN - THREADS

“I shall be returning Tuesday 26th…I am in the process of opening to new inspiration and content. I want to be able to serve more and expand my work with MEDITATIONSANSFRONTIERES.COM and TEAANDZEN.ORG for which this has been a platform to link into my deeper work and what I offer on my website…...teaandzen.org. I believe very strongly out of my own journey I have so much to offer that I want to share.” For those who don’t know here is my portfolio so to speak and what I do in service, in my mission to bring light into darkness or better put to be a catalyst for the light within you and hope and pray for your awareness of it. Bringing healing practices into all levels of education, prisons, rehabilitation centers, schools, hospitals, and to those experiencing sickness or need. Supporting the cultivation of higher levels of consciousness and well-being. Educating as many as possible through personal instruction and sessions, written materials, classes and trainings, and other means of media the importance and methods of these effective healing practices and techniques, and to uphold and practice loving kindness and compassion with respect and dignity for all life and the planet. In the support of research, charitable projects, and works in combining scientific research, case histories, and Nigel Lott’s own experiences and insights to present a broad perspective that empowers people to promote their own and others’ healing. For these past 37 years, Nigel Lott has put his ability to inspire and create change in human behavior to work through education, outreach, and service, and with an unwavering commitment he has helped to nurture and heal thousands of individuals, within communities as he spreads his core message that the power of love heal all wounds, if we can only but surrender to that truth. It is his story, the profound suffering that he experienced and the challenges largely overcome in his own recovery and healing process, that is the foundation of our work. He is also a natural-born empath who uses this ever-evolving gift to empower others in their process of healing. He is a master storyteller and accomplished meditation teacher. Brian Donahue. IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences.” Taking all that behavioral, psychological, social sciences and spiritual practice have to offer to the edge and beyond. Offering those lessons and insights with you in whatever way is helpful and most heartfelt. 501 (C) NON PROFIT REGISTERED CHARITY TAX EIN 81-3411835 Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

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This piece suggests that everything you do is sacred…you may well ask how could my life be sacred or that suffering could be called sacred……well, that’s the contemplation here. Contemplation is an action, a musing that takes place only from within the heart, so when you find yourself rationalizing rather than contemplating, pause…take a breath, and bring yourself back into your heart. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. Buddha. Love You….. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

In the midst of it all joy does exist at the center of life, beyond all suffering and travail. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

You may have noticed that I prefer to communicate from my heart to yours through music. The resonance and tone of the music conveys what I want to say. We all respond to the tone of what is being said primarily rather than the actual words. A mother might say to her teenage daughter, don’t speak to me in that tone, she is reacting to the resonance, more deeply than words by themselves could possibly convey. So I tend to struggle with words though I hope to get better at writing, for some reason they seem to dilute for me my original hearts intent and purpose. I am however going to practice writing more…in the meantime I hope the music and the poems I send to you resonate in all the good places and warm your hearts and raise the spirit. I could say that Love is best experienced from within silence though it is surely there amongst all the noise….. so rest awhile each day in silence, in Love. Language, by its nature, deceives. Cloaks the truth in darkness.. rather than illuminate it." "Truth," said the wise old man, "lives only in silence." Source Unknown It is in the silence within, meeting the silence without......in that space, out of time....that all truth is to be found....beyond even a whisper. Nigel Lott. It is in the nothing that the everything is found….Nigel Lott Music ‘I Can See You Levitating’ Hanna Lindgren Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,Break all our teacup talk of God. If you had the courage andCould give the Beloved His choice, some nights,He would just drag you around the roomBy your hair,Ripping from your grip all those toys in the worldThat bring you no joy. Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetlyAnd wants to rip to shredsAll your erroneous notions of truth That make you fight within yourself, dear one,And with others, Causing the world to weepOn too many fine days. God wants to manhandle us,Lock us inside of a tiny room with HimselfAnd practice His dropkick. The Beloved sometimes wantsTo do us a great favor: Hold us upside downAnd shake all the nonsense out. But when we hearHe is in such a “playful drunken mood” Most everyone I knowQuickly packs their bags and hightails itOut of town. ‘Let Her Go’ Amaranth Cove Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

“In serving the heart of another we serve the heart within us and the One Love that connects all, simply nothing therefore is left undone.” Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Long may your awareness of love and its power abide within you, its undying beauty always to remain. If you should forget its presence in you, however in times of trial and tribulation do not worry, for it will never forget you, its truth forever your guide and friend. Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Being that our atoms in our body were created at the start of our universe during the Big Bang. So if you look at it this way, then you’re about 13.7 billion years old. But your body also has heavier elements like copper and zinc. These atoms were created in the dying stage of an exploding star called a supernova. These elements were flung into space as dust and gas (stardust). Eventually, they coalesced to become part of a new forming solar system and our planet Earth. Because you are made from matter from the Earth, you are made of stardust from old supernovas. So turns out, you are bits and pieces of star and cosmic dust. E.H. SPRINKLE IT ALL AROUND THEN IN THE NAME OF LOVE. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

It is only through a sense of humility that we may gain access to an open heart and the Love found there…….wherein we find no judgement….no preferences… in complete surrender we become one with all that is, now and forevermore. Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

“In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my room; I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have to come to thy door. I stand under the golden canopy of thine evening sky and I lift my eager eyes to thy face. I have come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can vanish---no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through tears. Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fullness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe” ―Rabindranath Tagore Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

501 (C) 3 Non Profit, Registered Charity Tax Ein 81-3411835 Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

“May all sentient beings awaken to their own sense of equanimity born out of their hearts longing for peace and re-discover the one true nature that is inherent within them, within us all,…..in the transcendence of all suffering and travail. There are infinite possibilities that are born of knowing that all love surrounds us, lives within us and that all life is so very precious, there is not a moment to lose. Know that in the beginning, as in the end, it is....all that is or ever was or ever will be” …..Nigel Lott….. teaandzen.org Music ‘Transcendence’ ….Johannes Bornlöf Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Don’t surrender your loneliness so quicklyLet it cut more deepLet it ferment and season youAs few humanOr even divine ingredients canSomething missing in my heart tonightHas made my eyes so softMy voiceSo tenderMy need of GodAbsolutelyClear.” Music AV. Joseph Beg None of us can ever really be alone, Love is always with us, our loneliness is about thinking it is not….and that can never be true…..Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

If it is not my portion to meet thee in this lifethen let me ever feel that I have missed thy sight---let me not forget for a moment,let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreamsand in my wakeful hours.As my days pass in the crowded market of this worldand my hands grow full with the daily profits,let me ever feel that I have gained nothing---let me not forget for a moment,let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreamsand in my wakeful hours.When I sit by the roadside, tired and panting,when I spread my bed low in the dust,let me ever feel that the long journey is still before me---let me not forget a moment,let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreamsand in my wakeful hours.When my rooms have been decked out and the flutes soundand the laughter there is loud,let me ever feel that I have not invited thee to my house---let me not forget for a moment,let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreamsand in my wakeful hours. 501 (C) Non Profit, Registered Charity Tax EIN 81-3411835 Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Life, Love and Letting Go Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

We cannot know something until it has been given us to know, wrapped in the tapestry of our destiny in this lifetime. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/teaandzen/message Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

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“If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” ― Rabindranath Tagore “I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside." - Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

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You are the Letter written by God. You are the Mirror that reflects the Divine. Seek inside for all you want. Is all you are. There is nothing above or Beyond. Rumi. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

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“You CAN find your way in the dark……just open your heart……it knows the way home”. Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

“The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,they’re in each other all along…” — Rumi Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

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In the name of creation…….of all that is sacred….. make your decisions in life with the best interests of all at heart……. in the name of Love…..in the name of Love. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside." Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī Show me anger and I'll show you hurt, show me hurt and I'll show you love….. care to peel the layers? Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Even in the midst of your greatest suffering Love is always present within you….. no matter what. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

It costs me nothing to feel that I am; it is no burden to me. And yet if the mental, physical, chemical, and other innumerable facts concerning all branches of knowledge which have united in me could be broken up, they would prove endless. It is some untold mystery of unity in me, that has the simplicity of the infinite and reduces the immense mass of multitude to a single point. This One in me knows the universe of the many. But, in whatever it knows, it knows the One in different aspects. It knows this room only because this room is One to it, in spite of the seeming contradiction of the endless facts contained in the single fact of the room. Its knowledge of a tree is the knowledge of a unity, which appears in the aspect of a tree. This One in me is creative. Its creations are a pastime, through which it gives expression[vi] to an ideal of unity in its endless show of variety. Such are its pictures, poems, and music, in which it finds joy only because they reveal the perfect forms of an inherent unity. This One in me not only seeks unity in knowledge for its understanding and creates images of unity for its delight; it also seeks union in love for its fulfillment. It seeks itself in others. This is a fact, which would be absurd had there been no great medium of truth to give it reality. In love, we find a joy that is ultimate because it is the ultimate truth. Therefore it is said in the Upanishads that the advaitam is anantam,—"the One is Infinite"; that the advaitam is anandam,—"the One is Love." Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

May you be so Loved, to know how Lovable you are, and to experience the safety, the peace found in that love. Open your heart, to the humility that an open heart provides, and to hear deeply from within that space what the universe has to say to you. For it is only in humility that we can receive the teaching and...the love....that all truth offers. Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

What sound was that? I turn away, into the shaking room. What was that sound that came in on the dark?What is this maze of light it leaves us in?What is this stance we take,To turn away and then turn back?What did we hear? It was the breath we took when we first met. Listen. It is here. Harold Pinter Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

For the rest of your life make all that you do…..every thought word and deed……. a prayer for peace…..Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Sit as if on a lotus petal within your spiritual heart…just below the sternum. Be with the Love found there….know your true nature. “It is in the silence within, meeting the silence without......in that space, out of time....that all truth is found....beyond even a whisper.” ~ Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

A fundamental reminder….that in the end as there was in the beginning there is only ONE of us, ONE LOVE that lays at the heart of it all and that will set you free, sets us all free…….may you find your way there now.” Nigel Lott We never put another being out of our hearts because as we do so, we put ourselves outside of our own hearts equal measure. That is to say as long as we hold resentment, a non forgiving posture toward another we are in essence keeping ourselves out from the Love and the peace that Love offers, found in the heart…..we are hurting ourselves. That anger, fear, grief that you are holding onto contaminates your own system. By-all-means…. it maybe perfectly reasonable to be angry (grief) and in some cases the only safe thing to do is to remove yourself from the presence of the person, (sometimes permanently) place or thing whose behavior hurts and is at the very least unkind. However your emotional, psychological reaction to their behavior is your own work on yourself….all-ways. We will never get out of our suffering and travail by dumping it on an-other person, place or thing. Look, its OK to be angry (anger is always ultimately a grief moment) To stay there in anger however keeps you stuck. There is no redeeming value in doing so. Our freedom from what hurts comes about by griefing the perceived loss of Love which is ultimately an illusion (just saying) that is being mirrored in the process with the other entity, person place or thing and the behavior that drives us to the anger, that is driven by fear and the underlying grief that is at the heart of the matter. Finally we come to understand that when we do the work to allow ourselves back into our own hearts and the grace on offer……that when we do do this a space opens up for the other to do the same, seemingly by osmosis…without words, any external action on our part we offer a healing to that other being we had resentment and anger toward, by our own work on ourselves. “May all sentient beings awaken to their own sense of equanimity born out of their hearts longing for peace and re-discover the one true nature that is inherent within them, within us all…..beyond all suffering and travail. There are infinite possibilities that are born of knowing that all love surrounds us all, lives within us and that all life is so very precious, there is not a moment to lose. Knowing that in the beginning, as in the end, it is....all that is or ever was or ever will be” Nigel Lott. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

"In serving the heart of another we serve the heart within us and, the one love that connects us all……. nothing, simply nothing therefore is left undone." Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Long may your awareness of love and its power abide within you….its undying beauty always to remain. If you should forget its presence in you however….in times of trial and tribulation do not worry……for it will never forget you…..its truth forever your guide and friend. Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

Whatever is held most sacred in your heart once….. is forever held there…..once sacred forever sacred…..master that you are of your own soul. Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

No-one can ever discount you without you discounting yourself. The other person is acting, speaking in a way that is hurtful and unkind but ultimately is coming up against an internal belief that is lodged within the make-up of your own system, that invariable has been there for sometime. No-one can ever discount you unless you simultaneously discount yourself. That other person is showing you a place where you have come to mistakenly believe you are unlovable, that you are not enough………the truth being that you are always lovable, always enough. So don’t hang out with people who are hurtful and unkind, (whenever you have the choice) and engage in discounting behavior….. by all means. However the psychological, emotional, and often somatic work to remove the original dynamic that drove your reaction to their behaviour (as a discount) is your own work on your-self. You are always lovable and enough………all-ways. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE