Stillness Speaks

"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself... Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I AM that is deeper than name and form." ~~ Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle

I have spent the majority of my life lost in thought. A counselor once commented that I was very cerebral. I thought that if I could only understand people, problems or even myself I could figure out how to make my life work. I read a lot and talked a lot but mostly I thought a lot. It took a very long time for me to realize that the noise in my head wasn't solving my problems. Once I finally realized that, I began the journey within.

It doesn't really matter what takes you into stillness, only that you find it. The beginning for me was learning yoga. It quieted my mind and I began to listen to my body. I found that learning awareness when it came to my body slowly began to transcend the physical as the voice of my heart began to softly break through. I learned to listen to the sound of my breath as I moved and held postures. Surprisingly, something as simple as listening to the breath can have the profound effect of bringing me into the present moment, the Now, where God resides. In those still moments I find that there is peace that passes all understanding and the answers that I had so desperately sought now quietly reveal themselves. Stillness speaks and I am learning to listen.