Stillness

I’ve been lucky enough to get out into the snow the last 3 days and apart from the sheer beauty of the sunlight on the snow and the novelty of the blanket of white over our usual landscape, the thing that I was really struck by was the silence and the stillness.  These are rare qualities in this crazy modern world and the more precious for that. 

I was up on Puttenham  Heath today and as it is reached by driving up a little used B road that was sheet ice even today, there had been relatively few visitors to fabulous place.  In the quiet and in the stillness we come face-to-face with our thoughts, feelings and intuitions.  We can listen to ourselves.  Take the time to listen to the insights of the silence.

“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”  Rachel Naomi Remen

“Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.”  Eckhart Tolle

Tags: silence, snow, stillness

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