Stillness

When I slow down, I can feel more of what I am already sensing.

This happens in small ways, almost every day. Slowing down gives my awareness room to feel further into a moment. More of what is there begins to connect with what matters to me. I can stay with something I had already sensed long enough to notice more of it.

That is what stillness makes possible for me. The surface settles enough to feel what is moving below it. Something that seemed separate finds its place beside something else. An ordinary moment has more in it than I first allowed myself to notice.

I think of water settling. The silt falls, and what was already there becomes easier to see. Attention can settle like that too, if I give it time.

You do not have to believe anything to begin. Pause for a moment and stay with what you are already sensing. Let yourself notice what it connects to. Sometimes the quiet begins to feel like presence, and something that matters becomes easier to keep in view.

Be still enough, and it surfaces.

Curtis