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Spiritual teacher Swami Dhyan Giten's first and loved book in English, The Silent Whisperings of the Heart: An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life, is Amazon International bestseller ranked in three categories; Books, Love Poetry and Health, Family & Lifestyle Help ***** Five stars, Goodreads,the world's largest book site for readers and book recommendations with 45 million user worldwide ***** 5/5 stars, Obooko.com, New York Times Award-winning book site ***** 5/5 stars, Free Ebooks.com, the world’s largest site for free Ebooks “In The Whisperings of the Heart, Giten invites us to a celebration, a feast for the soul and delights us and inspires us with capsules of insight and conscious affirmation of the deliciousness of the divine.” From the foreword by Eric Rolf, International lecturer, seminary leader, author of Soul Medicine and consultant to John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul Simon and Carlos Santana "Giten writes in a poetic language. When I read Giten, I am reminded of Kahlil Gibran. Yes, I would like to compare Giten to Kahlil Gibran." - Gordon Banta, author of Magic of Meditation, USA Comments from an excerpt on love from the book on the web magazine High Existence. Read an excerpt from the book on love below. "I truly enjoyed reading this whole thing! This inspired me even more to become more of a loving person. I love that feeling of just waking up, and smiling for the first 5 seconds right away and wondering how this day can be interesting." - Fabian "What a beautiful article! I love the dynamic of Fear versus Love" - Micaela Barrios “Love is to eat pizza with our beloved even though we hate pizza." What a perfect quote to wake up and read. I really enjoyed this article, definitely going to read it when I need to pick me up. “In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is.” That quote struck me the most, that people have everything they need in their hearts. People need to open up and let everything be perfect, but so many put up walls and refuse to look within themselves." - Lauren Shibley "So true. I think one of the biggest problems is people’s definition of love. When they say love, they’re actually talking about totally different things that aren’t love. The worst of all are all the “love films” which are just steaming piles of drama and pseudo-romantic nonsense. That’s all about a lack of love, not about love. Codependency, neediness, clinginess, monogamy, etc. is NOT love, it’s fear. Yet people say it’s the other way around, and keep on living miserable lives without questioning their dumb definitions. Love is all you need." - Emil "This is my favorite of the above: “The basic problem with the world is that there is too much hate and too little love. ” I believe this is so true. At a point in our human history we became, as a group, too selfish, greedy and isolated. Hate was allowed to grow and love was stunted. If we are to grow as a society and thrive, then love has got to be put back where it belongs; at the front of everything. Without love, there is nothing." Love this post. - Sally "It would be weird not to hit the love button after reading this article." - Hilary J "This website never fails to deliver messages to me at exactly the moment that I need them. I really appreciate it, and it has helped me to grow and learn in ways that make my life more enjoyable and full of love." - Dong The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life - is spiritual teacher and best-selling author Swami Dhyan Giten's first and most loved book in English, which has touched the hearts of thousands around the world. How can we learn to listen to the silent whisperings of our heart? How does love relate to aloneness? What is intuition? How can we develop our presence, so that our presence and intuition becomes a source of love, joy, healing and wisdom in the contact with another person? What is the difference between the personality and the inner being, the authentic self? How can we develop the inner being through meditation? How do the inner man and woman express themselves on the outside in the form of relationships? How do the three life areas, meditation, relationships and creativity, relate to each other in creating a loving, fulfilling and creative life? What is spiritual maturity? The Silent Whisperings of the Heart consists of a collection of quotes from Swami Dhyan Giten about awareness, meditation, intuition, relationships, the inner man and woman, healing, working with people from love and awareness, truth, creativity, silence, wisdom and spiritual maturity. Each page inspires you to see yourself and life in a new way, from a new dimension. This collection of quotes is an introduction to Giten's perspective on life. It is a beautiful gift for yourself or a friend. The book is available in paperback globally on Amazon, Ubuy.com and Ebay. The book is also available as a free EBook, which can be downloaded directly to your mobile phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer in pdf, epub or kindle formats at Obooo.com, New York Times award-winning book site for free EBooks and Free Ebooks.com, the world's largest book site for free EBooks. WHAT IS LOVE? - AN EXCERPT FROM GITEN'S MOST LOVED BOOK THE SILENT WHISPERINGS OF THE HEART - AN INTRODUCTION TO GITEN'S APPROACH TO LIFE Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is the quality that arises when we are in contact with our inner being, with our authentic self, with the meditative quality within, with the inner silence and emptiness. This inner emptiness is experienced by others and is expressed on the outside as love. This love is not addressed to a specific person; it is a presence and quality that surrounds a person like a fragrance. The human heart is a healer, which heals both other people and ourselves. The open heart is like a fountain, which no longer makes any distinction between:”I like you – I do not like you”. The open heart does not make any difference between friends and enemies. The open heart is open both for ourselves and for other people. The open heart is unconditional love. Intuition is our true inner voice, the ever-present inner source of love, truth and wisdom, and the silent Existential voice within ourselves. Through the intuition, we are in contact with the Whole. Our heart is the door to allow Existence to guide us – instead of being directed by our own ideas, attitudes and preconceived expectations of how life should be. When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with the attitude: “Nobody loves me” or “Nobody cares about me”, which can make it hard for other people to love us. The basic problem with the world is that there is too much hate and too little love. The fourth level of consciousness is placed in the middle of the heart. The fourth level of consciousness is the human heart. The heart relates to unconditional love and acceptance both for ourselves and for other people. The heart relates to qualities such as empathy, joy, acceptance, trust, intuition, understanding, compassion, playfulness, healing, friendship, sincerity and a sense of oneness in love. The human heart has both an active and outgoing quality and a receptive and ingoing quality. The outgoing quality is active love and the ingoing quality means to allow both others and ourselves to love us Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is the quality that arises when we are in contact with our inner being A silent revolution of the heart happens when we begin to care about another person and it is a joy to put the needs of the other person before our own needs. It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to develop the awareness and sensitivity, which makes us begin to care about another person. When our heart is closed, it creates a lonely and isolated feeling. It prevents us from seeing the love that surrounds us all the time. It is when we begin to open our hearts that we discover a feeling of oneness in love with other people, with nature, with the trees, with the stones, with the ocean and with the blue sky. I remember when I had a painful relationship with a woman and did not know what I wanted to do with the relationship. Then I closed my eyes and asked my own intuition, my inner source of love and truth, Existence within myself, what I should do with the relationship. The answer that came in a silent whisper was: “Focus on love, not on a specific person.” It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that we are not separated from life. We begin to understand that we are not small separate islands in a great ocean, but that life is one and that we all are small parts of the Whole. We begin to understand what is really important and meaningful in life. It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that life is about sharing, rather than hoarding. We begin to understand that life is about giving, rather than taking. Above the consciousness level of the heart, we need a teacher and a guide. It is somebody who “knows”, who has walked further on the path than us and who can guide, encourage and inspire us. There is an Indian saying: “When the disciple is ready, the teacher occurs.” Our heart is actually already open, but it is our judgments about others and ourselves that keep it closed. When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open. The way to healing is to learn to love and accept ourselves unconditionally. It means to embrace both our positive and negative sides with love. It means to love everything that we find inside ourselves. Healing happens when we bring everything that we find inside ourselves out into the light. Trust is a requirement for love. Without trust, love becomes without depth. It becomes like a plastic rose, instead of a fresh and alive rose. Even if some people will use and betray our trust, it is not a reason to allow them to undermine our basic trust in life. It is better to allow some people to betray our trust than to not allow our basic trust in life to develop. Many people are also so sleeping and unconscious that they do not even know what they are doing. Even if we feel hurt, disillusioned and disappointed with people, try to give them love. One criterion for spiritual maturity is that we begin to give love, instead of needing love. The really poor are those that think that money is the meaning of life. When we lack love in our life, money becomes a substitute. Love is to eat pizza with our beloved even though we hate pizza. We have been taught to love others, but not to love ourselves. But how can we love others if we do not love ourselves first? The ABC of love is that we first need to love ourselves before we can love anybody else. Exactly as the rhythm of the in breath and out breath of the physical body, love has also two poles: to give love and to allow ourselves to be loved. Some people can easier give love, while others can easier be loved. But for our love to be whole, we need to learn to both give love and allow ourselves to be loved. Love and fear are two sides of the same coin. In the absence of love, fear arises. In the light of love, fear disappears. Fear is a contraction of our life energy together with a feeling of loneliness and isolation. Love creates an expansion of our life energy together with a feeling of love, joy and belongingness with life. Love is the strongest force there is. There is no stronger healing power than love. Love is pure magic. Love transforms people without really doing anything. The mere presence of love transforms people. There is nothing more holy than love since love makes people whole. Love accepts a human being as she is. Love creates the freedom for a human being to be who she is. Love creates the relaxation, which helps a person to relax into her own inner being, into her own authentic self. Love allows us to appreciate the beautiful being we already are. Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is the quality of our inner being. It is to discover the source of love deep within ourselves, which is our true nature. In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is. Love is the most valuable gift we can give to another person. What we need to do is to open our heart and release our love to the world, to the people, to nature, to the animals, to the trees and to the sky – and this love will be returned a thousand times to us. The basic fear with love is that love is larger than ourselves. Love means to realize that we are one with life. Real love means to realize that we are one with the other person, one with nature, and one with the trees, the stones, the earth and the blue sky. It means to realize that all of life is God.