Peter van Straten

Peter van Straten

 

In the beginning, spiritual life was indistinguishable from daily life, and there could be no concept of the spiritual.

 

Only with time, the progress of technology and the obsession with comfort it bred, did the purely physical grow to dominate to the degree that people felt they had lost something. This thing they had lost they called Spirit, and automatically they invented spirituality in order to try and find Spirit again.

 

From the very beginning, as it still is today, the gong and the bell were used to call people to help look for the spirit.

 

The chime of the bell does not end, but diminishes so gradually as to become one, seamlessly, with silence.

 

The bells feed the silence, but the silence is always hungry. It will remain so until we no longer understand the concept of Spirit.

The silence and the bell

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