Why Ritual ?
RITUAL is the key to everything you hold inside you that passionately wants to get out. Ritual is the way you make your special self into something practical and potently available in the world – without ritual you can not express your whole own inner magic. Ritual is the music.
Do we need inner silence to meditate?
Perhaps the greatest gift of meditation is the quieting of the mind's constant commentary. The familiar and constant voice that judges and compares everything. It creates likes and dislikes, attraction and aversion, and all other dualistic states that create suffering. Mind chatter spills over into dreams
Meditation on Loving Kindness..
Expressing gratitude is the most natural form of love for ourselves and, therefore, others.
You mean I can meditate and shower?
For some of us, our time in the shower each morning is the only quiet time of the day, so what not make it a meditation sanctuary? All you need do is slow things down by a few seconds at each step, and already you will begin the day ( or end the day ) with a sense of renewal inside and out.