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.