August
It is August and we have gone to ground here at Wild Fortune
– it is a sabbath time for us. Going slow and taking time out is part of our
rhythm of life during this month, so there is no Quiet Garden, Still Waters or Service
of Silence & Beholding – it is instead a time of slow work, reflection and
rest. There is a definite disengagement from the insistence of the diary,
getting places and seeing people; it is instead a time to review and take a
break here at home, to reconnect with the deeper rhythms of stillness and creativity,
ones which have their own renewing dynamic.
It has been said: ‘Stillness is the language God
speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.’ Stillness is really another
word for space. Becoming conscious of stillness whenever we encounter it in our
lives will connect us with the formless and timeless dimension within
ourselves, that which is beyond thought, beyond ego. It may be the stillness that
pervades the world of nature, or the stillness in your room in the early hours
of the morning, or the silent gaps in between sounds. Stillness has no form –
that is why through thinking we cannot become aware of it. Thought is form.
Being aware of stillness means to be still. To be still is to be conscious
without thought. You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than
when you are still. When you are still, you are who you were before you
temporarily assumed this physical and mental form called person. You are also
who you will be when the form dissolves. When you are still, you are who you
are beyond your temporal existence: consciousness – unconditioned, formless,
eternal.
Eckhart Tolle – A New Earth
Peace be with you.
