learning to sit quietly

I keep coming back to the choices that we can make in how we want to live our lives,
deciding to accept the suffering that we choose,
or deciding to detach ourselves from the current crisis at hand.
This perspective puts it plainly--learning to sit quietly can give us something to hang onto.
Happy Sunday--hope you can find a few quiet minutes!

“Time and again I was seeing that if I could handle the winds of the current storm, they would end up blowing in some great gift … Challenging situations create the force needed to bring about change. The problem is that we generally use all the stirred up energy intended to bring about change, to resist change. I was learning to sit quietly in the midst of the howling winds and wait to see what constructing action was being asked of me.”
– Michael Singer

via {swiss miss}
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