The best advice I never got

Be quiet. Stop ruminating.

The being-ness of beauty

How does a single cut flower, so still, silent and surrendered, convene the attention of an entire room, then ‘float’ that room with beauty and aliveness and love? Well, not by doing anything.

Be still

When I am still, I am home.

On the fourth breath

Be still and know that I am God.

Be still and know that I am.

Be still and know.

Be still.

Be.

Be still, and know

There comes a time when doing nothing is the best and most curative course. The Chinese term for this is wu wei: action-less activity. Our word is consciousness: awareness without thought. At its purest and most distilled, doing nothing is a state of whole-heartedness, of resolute integrity.

Stones have sermons.