Stillness Can Be Felt Even In Times Of Change

The more seasons I move through in my life, the more I recognize the role of change in my life… and how very good change is for me.  However, I used to go through my days mostly trying to avoid change.  I thought my routines made things secure and stable, and that is what I kidded myself into believing that I wanted.

I’ve observed that most of us do what we can to tame this moving universe we live in, but the real truth is that nothing is truly still.  For what we would be if we were not moving constantly?  What if it weren’t for inertia to move us through the density and destiny of this life?  Stagnation is usually considered unpleasant, is it not?

Change can be adventurous, it’s true, but how much adventure my life holds is up to me. As my little world changes, will I fight it and resist the current?  The more I do, it’s amazing how much more dramatic the change becomes – the dramatic fallout from the friction increases proportionately to the resistance I offer.

We are taught by the masters to sit still and contemplate, meditate or pray.  What I have learned is that stillness does not only happen when the body is physically motionless, because I can feel stillness even while engaged in my daily tasks.  Being still is truly about stilling the urge to fight the stream of the ever-moving current.  Being in stillness happens when I align to the direction of the flow.  However, make note that though it might feel like stillness when going with the current, indeed, life is not even close to being still.  It is an adventurous river ride with changing scenes all around.  It can be a fun-filled, pleasant journey with time to enjoy the scenery, or it can be an exhausting, harrowing trip down the rapids!

There is a plan for my life, and as I go with the flow if it, I begin to know the inner peace that the masters call stillness. They call it a quieting of the mind, which I now see is truly a quieting of the urge to fight the inevitable changing adventure of my life.