Finding Stillness

Finding Stillness

Have you ever started out from one place and when you arrived at your destination you can’t recall the experiences that happened in the time that passed? It is as if you were on auto-pilot. The mind and body were working together to ensure you arrived safely. The idea of finding the stillness within the vibrant movement of the world around us is captured in the T.S. Eliot Poem, “The Still Point”.

At the still point of the turning world.

***Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards;

at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.

***And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered.

***Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline.

***Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance,

and there is only the dance,
I can only say,

there we have been:

but I cannot say where.
***

And I cannot say,

how long, for that is to place it in time.
***

The inner freedom from the practical desire,
The release from action and suffering, release from the inner
And the outer compulsion, yet surrounded By a grace of sense,

a white light still and moving. –T.S. Eliot

When we meditate we find a place within where stillness abides. And if you remain there for a while the very subtle process of learning more about your true nature begins.

Namaste,

Dee Williams

www.kanjinyoga.com