We aren't being offered a great deal of stillness by the technological, cultural world right now. So, we have to guard that in ourselves, we have to create those moments. It's why many people do it through meditation practice. Some people do it by going for a quiet walk in nature for 15, 20, 30 minutes a day. What gives you stillness? And if even hearing this idea of stillness seems foreign to you, that's a sign to you that you haven't had stillness for quite a while and it is destabilizing if we don't have that slower gear, that calmer moment.
Stillness speaks and it has a lot of wisdom to share with us, but it won't get that wisdom through to us if we're keeping ourselves so busy, so stimulated, so highly engaged, that we don't have that moment for the quiet voice inside us to be able to say, "You're tired, rest for a few hours," "You've got some sadness that you need to let go of, that you've been carrying around, but it's been hidden underneath your busyness. Give me your attention for an hour or two, and I will let it move through you and I will release it." The still, wise voice inside us is there for all of us.
-Lee Harris
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