The Peace Found in Stillness
Mountain Journey
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Contact Rod (rod@herondance.org) if you’d like a print or a poster that includes the accompanying reflection (below).
Who can be still while the mud settles?
Who can remain quiet until the moment of action?
The contemplative life is not poverty of spirit
but the wealth of an unhurried mind —
find the infinite in a square of sunlight,
the eternal in a single breath.
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Zen Mountain Journal News:
Work is underway on a book that will emerge out of these posts:
A Tao Te Ching Journaling Practice: Art and Taoist wisdom for seekers of inner quiet
This new journal will reduce the 81 chapters of the Tao te Ching into 46 key concepts, and accompany those with journal reflections to inspire thought among those of you interested in incorporating these concepts into a journaling practice.
Here’s an example from today’s post:
We humans are, by nature, emotional beings. We think we operate on logic. We think we are rational. In reality we bounce from emotion to emotion. We all experience frustration, agitation and even anger. We all experience feelings of insecurity and insufficiency. We return to our quiet center in stillness.
How much room do you make for stillness, for quiet time – no cell phone, no computer, no TV — in your life? If you made more room for quiet, would your mind become clearer, your life more purposeful and centered?
How would you like to see your life evolve from here? Would more time in stillness help you live that life you envision for yourself?
Here are mockups:
