There are two conditions for growth: quietude and stillness. To avoid growth, have a goal. Create an agenda. Make a plan. Draw up a list of resolutions.
All growth is outgrowth. The germinant seed explodes.
Growth
Tag: stillness
There is no stillness or silence, there is always movement and sound.
There is nowhere to go. We take ourselves everywhere and find ourselves everywhere.
Dawn. Sitting still and silent in my car. The rain has abated, floods receding but the wind howls and gusts on, buffeting the car and bending the trees around me. Coffee cup warm in my hand, the Sunday traffic slowly begins to appear. Who are they, where are they going and why?
Yes.
Stillness, the open awareness of what simply is, would appear to be all that is needed: only to give up all of our effort and striving, and quite plainly and naturally rest in the vast openness of what is – which is all we ever were or could be. It really is that simple.
Simple presence
The peace you’re looking for isn’t something to acquire. It’s what’s revealed when you stop searching.
What’s here now? 