Stillness Speaks

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Through “you,” formless consciousness has become aware of itself.

Most people’s lives are run by desire and fear.

Desire is the need to addsomething to yourself in order to beyourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losingsomething and thereby becoming diminished and beingless. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, No

It is essential to bring some stillness, particularly into your close relationships.

Love does not want or fear anything.

We have forgotten what rocks, plants, and animals still know. We have forgotten how to be— to be still, to be ourselves, to be where life is: Here and Now.

contained the seed of grace.

Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is con

has been said: wherever you go, there you are. In other words: you are here. Always. Is it so hard to accept that?