Stillness

Over a month ago I watched Oprah's "Soul Sunday" show. She had as her guest Mark Nepo, the author of "The Book of Awakening". I was instantly drawn in by their conversation and by his life story and the passages that were read and discussed. AmazingIy, I have seen the book, time and time again and never once picked it up to look at it. But now I just had to go and get it, to read and contemplate the messages within it.
I began reading it the very day I brought it home, Dec. 3, 2011. The book has a thoughtful and beautiful message for each day of the calender year. You may read the message for today's date or just open the book at random to get your inspiration. So each day since, the first thing I do in the morning is to sit quietly with a cup of coffee and read the day's message. I underline things that are particularly meaningful to me and even go back and
re-read past day's messages.

Today's message was titled ~ "Unlearning Back to God"  (Goddess to me, of course)
It said, "Each person is born with an unencumbered spot - free of expectation and regret, free of ambition and embarrassment, free of fear and worry - an umbilical spot of grace where we were each first touched by God. It is this spot of grace that issues peace.
To know this spot of Inwardness is to know who we are, not by surface markers of identity, not by where we work or what we wear or how we like to be addressed, but by feeling our place in relation to the Infinite and by inhabiting it."

This place is the place of STILLNESS. It is that breathtakingly beautiful moment of connecting to the Divine. It is Inner Peace, the connecting on a soul level for a moment in time. Imagine feeling at One with Spirit, our true essence. As Teilhard de Chardin said,
"We are not human beings having a spiritual eperience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience." As I stated on the January 1st post, we have been gifted the
experience of being here in human form and we should cherish every moment of life here on earth but we cannot forget our true Nature. We are Divine Spirit.

Think of a moment in time that you were truly in a place of peace, a place of unconditional love and joy transpiring. When we do remember we can actually return there and recapture the essence of the experience.

The place of Stillness is our innermost sense of self  

Who we truly are, without name and form

In Stillness we find our way.

Until tomorrow,
Namaste
Jai Mata Di