#stillness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #stillness, aggregated by home.social.
-
I WALKED PAST THE FLAMIN’
OBVIOUS FOR 65 YEARS 💎There was a period when I left almost all my associations behind. Not dramatically. I simply couldn't do very much else. So I became extraordinarily concerned with myself.
My breathing. My food. My body. My sleep. What time I went to bed. What time I woke. When I ate. When I didn't eat. How I moved. What I allowed into my head. And my meditation.
I BECAME, BY ANY ORDINARY DEFINITION, RATHER SELF-OBSESSED.
And perhaps I was.
I didn't know anything about discipline. I certainly didn't think of myself as disciplined. Obsession was something I understood, so perhaps I simply turned the obsession towards the only thing I could actually do anything about.
MY OWN LIFE.
I had a very simple understanding:
I will do everything I can for myself with devotion.
GOD CAN DO THE REST.
So I worked on the breath. I worked on the body. I worked on how I ate, slept, and lived. I gradually removed things that seemed to interfere. "The blocks to the awareness of love's presence." (ACIM)
And somewhere inside all that apparent self-obsession, something else began multiplying.
PEACE.
I didn't notice it arriving. There wasn't a revelation. There was just progressively less argument with everything.
Looking back, perhaps the most important thing was that I stopped asking my body to accommodate the life I thought I should be living.
I began accommodating the body.
If it needs rest, I rest. If it needs breath, I breathe. If something disturbs it, I pay attention.
There's nothing particularly mystical about it.
The extraordinary thing is how simple it eventually became. So simple, in fact, that I managed to walk straight past it for about 65 years.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works
#Breathwork #Meditation #Peace #Stillness #SelfCare #SelfKnowledge #Discipline #Devotion #ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #Spirituality #InnerPeace
-
ETERNAL LIFE IS KIND 💎
This morning I woke up surprisingly peaceful. My breath was free. My mind was free. My heart was free. There was #clutter around the edges, but none of it seemed able to get at me.
Then someone from a Star Trek group on Mastodon sent me a message that felt like a threat. So I unfollowed the #group and blocked him. No argument. No defence.
I DON’T DO THREATS ANYMORE.
Then the morning wandered somewhere completely different.
I looked out at Lenah Valley. Sunny, about 11 or 12 degrees, the #mountain right behind us. I imagined #Hobart seventy years from now. The mountain will probably still be there, but the city may be almost unrecognisable. An AI city, perhaps. Not because AI suddenly arrives with trumpets. It is already changing things quietly underneath everything.
Then #Nepal came into the morning. That enormous wall of water, rock and ice coming down the mountain. And again, I thought about death. Everybody dies somehow, somewhere, sometime. That sounds cold until the fear drops out of it. Then it is simply true.
From there, for reasons only mornings understand, I thought about #DollyParton and #TimCurry. I saw Tim in the original #RockyHorror Show in London. I never saw Dolly live. But I loved her kindness.
And that took me to a nurse who cared for me as a little boy. I can still see her starched white uniform and the #watch pinned upside down on her chest so she could look down and read it.
She gave me kindness when I needed it, about sixty-five years ago. She is probably long dead.
But the kindness isn’t.
IT IS STILL HERE.
It travelled into relationships, things I have written and things I have said. Perhaps into people I will never know. #Kindness does not necessarily die with the person who gave it. It gets passed along.
Later, LindaCu boosted something I had written about breathwork. I used to struggle terribly with patience and #acceptance. Then I found breathwork and stopped battling myself quite so much. I learned to breathe my way out of the #monkey mind and back into something quieter.
By then, I realised I had spent the morning moving through peace, irritation, Hobart, AI, Nepal, death, Tim Curry, Dolly Parton, an old nurse, breathwork and Mastodon.
Quite a morning.
And none of it needed fixing.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works
#Peace #Kindness #Breathwork #Acceptance #Stillness #Hobart #Tasmania #AI #Death #Mortality #Mastodon #Fediverse #StarTrek #RockyHorror #DollyParton #TimCurry #Nepal #Humanity #Memory #Life
-
No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.
Just come and sit.This Sunday, Friends will gather for worship in Sweden, Norway, and Finland.
Meetings are taking place in Stockholm, Oslo, Stavanger, and Helsinki.
See the individual country posts for times, locations, and details.
#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse
-
Can you still stop your mind and just be?
Everywhere, we are told
how to live,
what is right,
what is wrong,
what we should become.Here, nothing is required.
Just one animal.
A few Spanish guitar strings.
One quiet moment.
And you...Nothing to learn.
Nothing to become.Just be.
#FincaRai #Luisa #Donkey #asstodon #SpanishGuitar #Stillness
-
IF THE EGO HAS
A THOUSAND ARGUMENTS… 💎Most of us spend far too much time answering thoughts that never deserved a reply.
Training the mind may be much simpler than we make it.
Not filling it with better thoughts. Not winning arguments with it. Not becoming expert at identifying every form an untrue thought might take.
Because untruth is clever about changing clothes.
It can arrive as fear. Grievance. Judgement. An old memory. An imagined conversation. A perfectly reasonable complaint. Something someone should not have said. Something that should have happened differently twenty years ago.
It can even arrive dressed as wisdom.
The problem with examining every thought to decide whether it is true is that the negotiation has already begun.
There is another possibility.
NO COMMENT.
A thought wants to be followed.
No comment.
It wants justification.
No comment.
It produces evidence, witnesses and a very convincing closing argument.
No comment.
This isn't suppression. It isn't pretending reality hasn't happened. And it doesn't require the mind to become silent.
It is simply the refusal to automatically give every thought attention, agreement and belief.
That is where training matters.
At first, "no comment" has to be remembered.
With repetition, it begins to become the response itself.
The forms can keep changing. They will.
There is no need to learn every disguise.
Only to stop automatically believing every story the mind presents.
The ego can prepare its entire case.
No comment.
THERE IS NO NEED TO ENTER THE COURTROOM.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#mindfulness #meditation #ACourseInMiracles #ACIM #stillness #presence #innerpeace
-
Words may be wiped from a transient ledger, but what is quietly understood does not vanish with the ink. A screen can be cleared in a single keystroke, yet the root of memory stays grounded beneath the digital noise. Let the dust settle; the inner compass remains unbroken, and the journey carries on.
#reflections #mindfulness #resilience #innerpeace #philosophy #clarity #life #digitalnoise #growth #strength #grounded #journey #perspective #stillness #calm #truth
-
I CAN BE SAD
WITHOUT MAKING IT A PROJECT 💎Something happened recently in a close friendship. Nothing dramatic. No great argument. No doors slammed. Just that peculiar feeling of someone becoming more distant.
And immediately the mind went to work. What happened? Was it something I said? Should I explain? Should I write? Should I wait? Should I repair something? Have I misunderstood?
Round and round, the monkey mind had me well and truly by the short and curlies.
And then this morning I remembered one of my favourite lines from A Course in Miracles:
“I need do nothing.”
And for once I took it absolutely literally.
THERE IS NOTHING I NEED TO DO.
I don't need to chase anyone. I don't need to work out what another person is thinking. I don't need to manufacture an explanation for their behaviour. I don't even need to make myself feel better about it.
That last bit matters. “I need do nothing” isn't a clever way of getting rid of sadness. The sadness can be here.
WHAT DISAPPEARS IS THE ASSIGNMENT.
I wonder how much of our lives we spend trying to mentally manage things that are already happening. Other people's feelings. Their decisions. Whether they stay. Whether they leave. What they think of us. What tomorrow might bring.
We call much of this thinking. Quite a lot of it is attempted control.
Sometimes there really is something to do. Apologise. Speak. Act. Help. Change something.
AND SOMETIMES THERE SIMPLY ISN'T.
This morning, there isn't.
The sadness may still be here. But there is nothing I need to do about it.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #Stillness #LettingGo #Presence #Acceptance #Peace #Friendship #Sadness #MonkeyMind #Control #NothingToFix #people #monkey #mind
-
APPARENTLY, I APPEAR
TO HAVE STOPPED TRYING 💎Isn't there something slightly absurd about discovering a little peace and immediately wanting to explain it to everybody?
The mind says: Tell them. Teach it. Turn it into something useful.
But the present moment seems completely uninterested in becoming a philosophy.
It is already here.
Coffee. Fire. Bright but cold outside. A dog moving across the room. A conversation with Pete. A body breathing.
Nothing particularly spiritual about any of it.
Perhaps that is the difficulty.
Striving is often regarded as serious, while presence can look like laziness. Planning looks responsible. Regret looks thoughtful. Simply being present can look suspiciously like doing nothing.
And yet everything that actually happens happens here and now.
The past can be remembered. The future can be imagined. Neither can be lived.
So perhaps there is nothing to teach. Nothing to defend. And nothing to broadcast.
Just this.
And then this.
And then this...
--------------------------------------------
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works#presence #now #stillness #ACIM #mindfulness #ordinarylife #peace #philosophy #future #broadcast #Regret #mind #person #man #woman
-
Pace
Often I find myself stuck
#Pace #Awareness #breathingRoom #burnout #ContemplativePoetry #contemporaryPoetry #dailyLife #findingBalance #hurry #innerPeace #livingGently #mindfulLiving #movingForward #Patience #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Rest #rhythmOfLife #sacredPause #SlowingDown #SpiritualReflection #stillness #takingTime #Writing
between the slow
and the fast,
fitting into neither,
stumbling,
never finding
a comfortable
pace.
I am impatient
with those ahead of me,
whose slow progress
impedes my attempts
to reach my destination.
I am angry at those
pushing me from behind,
so concerned with
reaching their goal
that I am just another
obstacle in their way.
I must remember
that at times I have
been both.
It is the engine within,
not the speed of those
I encounter on the road,
that drives me to anger
and impatience.
O Divine Driver,
Grant that I might have a
more compassionate
awareness on this
journey.
August 2, 2015 -
No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.
Just come and sit.This Sunday, Friends will gather for worship in Sweden, Norway, and Finland.
Meetings are taking place in Stockholm, Linköping, Svenstavik, Oslo, Stavanger, and Helsinki.
See the individual country posts for times, locations, and contact details.
#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse
-
My breath practice showed me the doorway. Sleep helped me pass through.
#Breathwork #OceanBreath #Sleep #Peace #Stillness #LettingGo #Trust #Rest #Presence #Healing #NervousSystem #Mindfulness #Wellbeing #Life
-
REALITY:
NO ASSEMBLY REQUIRED 💎There is #nothing to attain because reality has never been absent.
The mind imagines that #peace lies somewhere ahead, just beyond one more insight, one more #practice, one more achievement. Yet every movement towards a #future peace quietly assumes that peace is not already here.
“I need do nothing” is not an invitation to become passive. It is an invitation to stop interfering.
Reality does not require my improvement. It does not wait for my approval. It does not depend upon my #understanding. It simply is.
The #sun does not struggle to shine. It shines because shining is its #nature. Reality does not struggle to be #real. It is complete before I notice it.
On your #planet, extend yourself vertically towards your Sun.
In #ACIM terms, the #horizontal is the #world of bodies, #time, special #relationships, #conflict and #comparison. It is the movement of the #dream across the surface of the mind. The vertical is the turning of the mind towards #God, towards the #light that has never left it. It does not require withdrawal from the world. It simply restores direction. The horizontal continues, but it is no longer asked to provide what only the vertical can give.
The burden has never been the world. The burden has been my attempt to replace what is here with what I think should be here.
#Stillness is not something I create. It is what remains when I stop #manufacturing #alternatives.
Nothing needs to be added to this moment. Nothing real is missing. Nothing true has been damaged. God has already completed creation. My part is not to improve it but to stop overlooking it.
When I breathe without demanding another experience, stillness becomes obvious.
When I stop searching for meaning, meaninglessness dissolves into simple #presence.
When I stop trying to become, I #discover that being has quietly been here all along.
The world continues. #Weather comes and goes. Bodies age. #Thoughts appear and disappear. None of that has the authority to define reality.
Reality is #warm.
Reality is already here.
The choice is always the same: to become fascinated with the horizontal movement of the #dream, or to remember the vertical orientation towards the light. The vertical does not reject the horizontal. It simply gives it its proper place.
The sun has never stopped shining.
I need only stop looking away.
Right here.
Right now.
Nothing is needed.
Nothing is lacking.
Reality is still exactly as God created it.
#Stillness #INeedDoNothing #ACourseInMiracles #RealityIsHere #NothingIsLacking #InnerPeace #PresentMoment #SpiritualClarity #ChooseTheLight #ExtendTowardsYourSun #NoAssemblyRequired
-
A COURSE IN MIRACLES 💎
Today’s Lesson 202:
“I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”And the reviewed idea is:
“I will be still an instant and go home.”
For today, I’d keep it very simple: nothing to reach for, nothing to manufacture. Just let the body sit, breathe, and be included in stillness. “Home” is not somewhere else. It is the instant in which you stop insisting that you are elsewhere.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Lesson #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #stillness #instant
