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In this episode we explore how healing begins when we recognize our shared responsibility to one another and move beyond the wounds and the illusion of separateness that keep us in darkness. Through simple, daily acts of kindness and growing compassion, we are invited to uncover the love that lives in every heart and to make each moment an opportunity to bring light, truth, and connection into the world. 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 control. We have no control over outcomes of anything. No matter how hard we try, life unfolds according to its own mysterious intelligence. We may hold an intention, a vision, or a heartfelt desire for how something might turn out, but the actual unfolding is never in our hands. The river of life moves as it will. Our task is not to control its course, but to bring sincerity, clarity, and love to how we move within it. Intention is our offering. Outcome is grace. 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

"Grief is not a mistake; it is the echo of Love’s presence where form has changed" Nigel Lott teaandzen.org Music - Murmurations by Hannah Lindgren 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

This episode offers a heartfelt blessing for Omid honoring his peaceful passage and the boundless compassion that surrounds him. It reflects on his final act of generosity, the gift of life to others, and the lasting light and kindness he leaves behind. Listeners are invited to hold his family in their hearts and to find comfort in love and the quiet strength of memory. Thank you…. 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

Compassion is not a sentiment; it is the architecture of awakened being.” Nigel Lott "Love yourself as if you were your only precious child." Nigel Lott Focus.....take 5 minutes and fall in love, attend to the tender ache within your heart as the music unfolds. Let its resonance travel into that luminous space just beneath your sternum—and from there, allow all love to arise and flow forth. It is there waiting. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org     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 short guided meditation inviting you into the sacred stillness beyond thought. Through gentle willingness and embodied listening, it reveals a quiet pulse of presence where each breath carries the birth and return of worlds. Close your eyes, let the outer world fall away, and rest in this radiant fullness — the silent place where love arises and the soul can simply be. teaandzen.org 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.” Nigel Lott www.teaandzen.org DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835     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

This episode explores the tender practice of releasing the past—not to forget, but to be refined by it—and to reclaim presence, wholeness, and the unhurt love that underlies every story. Through reflections on identity, grace, and quiet remembrance, listeners are guided toward an unhurried homecoming into the living present. 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

This episode traces the ego's final unravelling as a series of small, necessary deaths: the dissolution of identities, protective reflexes and old narratives. Blending neuroscience and contemplative insight, it explains how survival circuits react when consciousness shifts and how surrender engages the parasympathetic system to restore rest and repair. What feels like regression is actually completion—the nervous system releasing stored energy, the self reintegrating, and a steady presence emerging. Practical cues—breath, pause, and compassion—help the body remember that peace is possible. 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 Love’s field, there is no distance — only differing angles of remembrance.” Nigel Lott teaandzen.org DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 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 you’ll find here is not teaching, but remembering — a returning to the stillness behind all sound. These are whispers from that field beyond right and wrong, where language dissolves and only presence remains. They are invitations to listen with the heart — to feel the breeze of the Infinite moving through the ordinary. This is the soul’s geography. The place where we remember who we are.       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 is the organizing principle of all dimensions — the unseen geometry upon which all things rest.” Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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 divine breath is the bridge between worlds — the unseen hand that lifts the heart from the temporal to the eternal. When we breathe with awareness, we borrow for a moment the rhythm of creation itself. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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 is the quiet remembering of who we have always been. 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

My old teacher, Gurunath, once said: Anything not rooted in the soil of love flowers not. I have carried that truth for decades. I have come to see that the universe itself is the flowering of love — not metaphorically, but literally — that love is the creative impulse behind every atom, every breath, every birth and death. It is the field through which all form arises and to which all returns. When we think, speak, or act without love at the root, the universe withholds its blessing. The thing may sprout — it may even grow for a time — but it will not flower. For what is not born of love cannot endure, because it is out of alignment with the very fabric of existence. To live wisely is not to cease acting or speaking, but to root every thought, every word, every deed in love from its inception. To pause before creation — whether that creation is a sentence, a decision, or a gesture — and ask quietly: “Is this arising from love?” If it is not, let it rest. Let it compost in silence until love reclaims it. For only what is planted in the soil of love will flower in eternity. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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

This episode reflects on how Jesus' core teaching was radical love, compassion, and inclusion rather than division, hierarchy, or dogma. It ties Christ's message to a universal spiritual current found across religions — forgiveness, service, and the remembering of the divine within — and invites listeners to live that love in everyday life. 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

Spread it around 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 amidst chaos, dissonance, and the shadows that occasionally wrap around me, a deeper truth begins to unfurl. Simultaneously, the alchemy of existence, of all truth reveals itself….LOVE Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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

Do you know who you are, truly, beyond the walls and barriers you have built across this lifetime? Beneath the scars, the defenses, and the masks, there is something vast and immeasurable waiting. Let me tell you. Within you lives a love beyond your wildest imagining. To call it “ecstasy” is to point only faintly in its direction, for this love cannot be contained by a single word or sensation. It is not fleeting, not conditional, not fragile. It is a radiance so steady and unshakable that even the darkest grief, even the deepest loneliness, cannot erase it. That is who you are. That is who we all are. We come not from separate places, not from fractured beginnings, but from a single point of reference — a source of light that is Love itself. All our lives, all our struggles, all our searching are threads woven back toward that one origin. And when at last the noise subsides, when the restless voices of fear and doubt fall silent, there it waits: on the other side of silence. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org P.S. When I speak of Love, I don’t mean sentiment or preference. I’m pointing to the quiet, radiant presence at the heart of all things — the living intelligence that holds and moves through us, beyond grasping or control. It isn’t an emotion to chase, but a reality to remember. 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 this writing we explore the quiet power of surrender — not as defeat, but as a doorway to divine grace. True wisdom is not born of the intellect, but of the heart. When we yield to the present moment with humility, we come before love itself, before God, where the deepest questions of the soul are answered. In embracing the true wisdom of the heart, we offer no resistance to circumstance, surrendering fully with the utmost humility. In this surrender, we come before the ONE living truth, of a love beyond measure, where all questions are answered with the utmost grace, and without reservation. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org These words point to a profound spiritual truth: true wisdom is not born of the intellect, but of the heart. When we surrender to life’s circumstances without resistance, we allow the flow of absolute grace to enter our being. This act of surrender is not one of weakness, but of strength and trust. It is through humility….yielding to the present moment….that we encounter love in its purest form, the presence of our original nature, ONE with all that is. In the quiet of surrender, we find answers to the deepest questions of the soul. No longer bound by the need for control or certainty, we open ourselves to a wisdom far beyond the mind’s capacity. Here, in the embrace of grace, we discover that love itself holds the answers, guiding us with a gentle, unwavering certainty. To surrender is not to give up, but to give over…..to give over to the universal flow, to the intelligence of the heart. In this sacred act, all is revealed, and peace follows. In the stillness of the heart, we are never lost; we are always found. Nigel Lott. Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit, Registered Charity Tax Ein 81-3411835. Donate Your offering helps keep this sanctuary open for all who seek rest and remembrance. 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