Showing posts with label stillness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stillness. Show all posts

Sunday, February 1, 2015

multi-tasking isn't what it used to be...

~)(~
 "Slow down,
 and learn to savor the experience of Life Itself.
How can it be beneficial for anyone 
to pack as much activity as possible into a day, or night?
Doesn't that just jam our senses 
and jade our capability 
to experience things on a deeper, less superficial level?
Isn't rushing about feverishly 
with a long to-do list a sign of mental imbalance;
 a lack of ability and wisdom to pare down
  to what is really important and has long term value?
How to decide what is of value?
 One question that can be helpful is to ask of everything, 
"What is it for?" 
Keep looking deeper and deeper,
 and what you may find is 
that nothing more is needed to live a full life 
except to see and know what is already there.  
The ground of existence, if you will.
Less is more"
~)(~

"Stillness"

Original Watercolor Painting by RenePaints on etsy


Friday, October 24, 2014

in stillness and silence the world is restored...

"Through return to simple living comes control of desires.
In control of desires Stillness is attained.
In stillness the world is restored."
~Lao Tzu

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Silence is not merely the absence of sound, or noise, 
it is a state of being
at the edge of listening to nothing and something.
Silence is not an absence of words;
 it is a fullness of being.
 Health is not an absence of dis-ease,
It is a state of homeostasis.
~Samuel Avital
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"Monet No. One" 
(photo used by permission)
by Louie Rochon-Photography, 2011, 
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"Monet No. One"