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The Profound Power of Stillness: Finding Life Within the Quiet

by DW Green — April 30, 2025

“By practicing stillness, we don’t retreat from life—we dive more deeply into it.”

In our perpetually busy world, stillness is often misunderstood. Stillness is not emptiness or absence—it’s presence in its purest form. Like a serene pond whose surface barely ripples, stillness may appear quiet on the outside, but beneath teems with vibrant life and profound connection.

When we allow ourselves to be still, we create space to discover what already exists within us. Life is within. Love is within! By pausing and becoming still enough to notice the love that dwells both inside us and all around us, we engage in an act that is simultaneously personal and revolutionary. This practice of intentional stillness becomes a deeply powerful and countercultural statement in a world that values constant motion.

Most contemporary society operates on the assumption that movement equals progress—that we must continuously move quickly and climb upward. Stillness challenges this deeply ingrained notion that being busy and occupied is inherently better than being present and attentive. It refuses the constant call to distraction and the expectation that we remain perpetually plugged in to the digital stream of information and stimuli.

When we embrace stillness, we begin to see through the illusion of the separate self—a perception that exists only from its own illusory viewpoint. Yet even illusions contain elements of reality. The reality behind our apparently separate self or finite mind is nothing less than infinite awareness, connecting us to everything and everyone.

By practicing stillness, we don’t retreat from life—we dive more deeply into it. We discover that in quieting the external noise, we can finally hear the profound wisdom that has been speaking to us all along.