The Call to Quiet
When we listen … living is a constant state of discovery.
As the weeks and months of worldly troubles and uncertainty stretch on, there’s a call into the quiet for many of us. Following this call can look like devoting time to meditation, taking a walk outside or simply leaning back within a busy day to notice the beauty of nature or a garden.
Quiet has a regenerative feeling quality in the body. Allowing us to connect with the awakened awareness & beauty of being fully present to a moment with a sense of receptive listening. When the strategizing mind holds us hostage, quiet feels like a deeply nourishing internal retreat.
As Zen and Consciousness Teacher Adyashanti offers … it’s important to “Listen to the quiet spaces within”. To live into our depth can be challenging or a fantastic doorway to understanding our true nature. Seems we discount our body as that doorway. Our culture is a thinking culture, we can live constantly in our minds trying to figure everything out.
When we take our curiosity and inquiry into the quiet, into the body, we discover A-HA’s or intuitive insight that seemed out or reach before. We gain access to the subtle senses of the body to navigate from a more balanced state. Otherwise you’re in your mind, trying to figure everything our conceptually.
Flow happens when we move what’s discovered at our depth into daily life. Translating deep experience and perception into embodied living and inspired action.
Inquiry is one way to explore the quiet of our inner experience. To hold meaningful questions gently with curiosity and compassion, rather than judgement or expectation of answers. Then some times, its more important to exhale & relax into simply listening … sensing the nurturing, harmonizing experience of allowing the present moment to be just as it is.
To be human is to live in constant discovery rather than effort to live into an image of what life’s suppose to look like. Especially in times of stress, uncertainty or creation, it’s vital to create space for quiet, re-connection and re-grounding in what’s most important.
Even 10 minutes can make a world of difference.