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The Stillness
…I’m for the power of rest and the holiness of respite and the you that is your cells and circulatory system and all those inner workings that are so mysterious and necessary and regenerative if we let them be….As a writer I benefit greatly from leaving the work alone and coming back to it fresh, as one does with a relationship; pause, stoppage, inaction can all be wildly generative, and if they’re not that might be its own kind of fruitful that cannot be measured.
Take refuge in that beautiful stillness in which everything is happening in all the ways that nothing is happening in busyness. Everything happening in the depths, like deep water under a reflective surface. A pond reflecting clouds with schools of fish doing their things in the depths. Seeds germinating underground. Sitting still as zazen or just daydreaming or watching clouds is an act of outright revolt against the shouts that we should be doing something/do more/do more faster that are all around us. This might be another face of peace in our times with stillness the ceasefire in which spring comes again.
— Rebecca Solnit
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Almost everyone enjoys telling you what you should do, as opposed to what you must do, what is uniquely yours to do….
— Martha Graham
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