A time to pause.

Be still and know that I am God. Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be. ---sbnr.org

Sit still for a moment and notice all the sound around you. Listening for all the rich details and nuances--all the way to the most subtle sounds you can decipher, until it all leads back to silence. Find your quiet not by ignoring the sounds around you but by allowing yourself to be penetrated by them, and through entering you, you truly become absorbed into it, and are not separate from them.

See how long you can sit in this space without the need to do anything--no controlling the stories in your head, no entertaining yourself, just allowing yourself to be bathed in direct experience of what is going on around you and in you.

Emerge from this place of deep discovery full of an all encompassing spaciousness, a wellspring of depth and power from which worlds are created.


"The only way to gain power in a world that is moving to fast,is to learn to slow down. The only way to spread ones influence wide is to learn to go deep. The world that we want for ourselves and loved ones will not come about from electronic speed, but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in the soul. Then and only then will we create a world that reflects the heart rather than shatters it."--Marianne Williamson