Explore some of the ideas behind Stillness at Heart.
Meditation is simply sitting with yourself, being what you truly are.
Meditation is a practice to get to know yourself. In the end, there is no real difference between meditation and life.
Practice is life, and life is practice.
Happiness comes as a byproduct from understanding and experiencing what you truly are. The insight is the gift. Happiness is the byproduct.
Meditation is for the mind what exercise is for the body.
You exist. What are the odds? You exist! The body is a miracle. You are a miracle. Your life is a miracle. The heart is a miracle. Breathing is a miracle. Every breath is a celebration. Every breath is a wordless prayer.
The way out from all our difficulties, is the way in. The way in, is eventually recognizing there is no need for a way out.
We have a tendency to objectify everything, even ourselves. We talk as if we were an object we own. “I must do this,” “I must change that,” “I am like this,” “I am like that.” We objectify our relationships, each other, and our experiences. We even try to objectify meditation. But meditation isn’t an object, it’s what you most essentially are.
When you allow others to be as they are, when you actively want them to be as they are, you not only free them but you free yourself. You are no longer bound by your judgment of them.
99% of what we think ourselves to be is a distraction from what we really are. It’s a habit but also a choice. We can choose differently at any moment.
As soon as we define something it is dead to us in a sense. The trick is to keep everything alive, open, changing, without the need to contain it through labels. That’s how you become true. It takes courage to be this open.
Relate to everything and everyone from the truth of what you are.
Things can’t be other than what they are at any given moment. Understanding this gives peace.
What is the right way to be?
To be as you are, always. To be here, now. As you are. That is always the answer. To be present with truth, in big things and small. Truth and presence is the same thing. You can’t be present without being in truth. You can’t be in truth without being present.
It’s not about becoming a better you, retaining only your good qualities. It’s about becoming true. It’s about accepting yourself as you are. In doing so you learn to accept all others.
It takes courage to fully meet oneself.
