Stillness

Stillness is possible for everyone. Stillness is the eye of calm in the center of the storm without which the storm can’t actually achieve the power it has. Human beings reject the very font of their own spiritual, emotional, and even physical strength. Stillness.

But the stillness… People fear it. They think it is death. First, there is no death. Second, in the stillness there isn’t a lack of form. There is perfect form, perfect clarity. This is why ancient elders sought to go into the stillness. The forms of the ancestors are not lost. They are perfected as is their wisdom.

“One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on.” D.H. Lawrence (British Poet, Novelist and Essayist, 1885-1930)

“Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat” Lao Tzu (Chinese taoist Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote “Tao Te Ching” (also “The Book of the Way”). 600 BC-531 BC)

“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.” Chuang Tzu (The most significant of China’s early interpreters of Taoism, 389-286 BC)