A Moment of Stillness
Perhaps the most difficult and important thing is to learn to wait. And when one asks oneself what one is waiting for, one begins to realize that it is for a moment of stillness, without attachment to the past or future. For in such a moment all kinds of exercises and perceptions become possible which are never available when one is hurrying into the future or out of the past.
It seems to us that the important times are those when much is happening, much is required, and one is hypnotized by motion. It may be quite different. Now I begin to feel that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; and that activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.
~Rodney Collin
As an active type I often have friction with 'quiet' times. It is important to use those periods of time for digestion. The process of digestions is extremely important for our evolution. The machine (mind/body) wants activity and does not realize that too much motion can be a buffer.
~S
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