Stillness
Stillness is a refuge I always love to visit. Buts it's an elusive destination belonging to the road less traveled.
It's not physical stillness I mean, but a still mind.
It's not easy to achieve, but it's not impossible. It takes focus and discipline and a great degree of self love, as it's a most loving gift you can give to yourself.
I've been reading Dr Wayne Dyer's, The Power of Intention, and he writes about the power of being in connection with intention which he gives seven qualities - beauty, love, receptivity, kindness, expansion, creativity and abundance. Whenever I have visited "stillness" I have found these qualities in deep abundance. Dyer equates them to the ever-present face of the Divine, the essence of creation itself. I find that "stillness" is a place of deep nourishment.
Sometime however, I have a complacent relationship with stillness, though I know how to go there. I need a big prod delivered by life to remind me of my destination. Just like skating on thin ice brings a knife like focus, then I go back to find stillness the wonderful refuge in which resolution is meaningless. It reminds me sharply of who I truely am, and what I'm doing in this mystery called life.
I have little signposts all around me at the moment, and all of them are nudging me to get really still. Folded inside the stillness are potent answers, that I need to completely understand. I am feeling the urge to dissolve all my concerns inside it, to let them go inside its loving care.
I know that stillness has a special face. It's beautiful and kind, unlike this world sometimes is. I've forgotten that face a little. But it doesn't mean I can't see it again. It never turns away.
Much love today, Wendy.
