I watched this butterfly in our garden on a rose bush staying still even when the wind was blowing!
I have been through a turbulent season on account of having had to be associated with some organisational matters for about 18 months!
What helped me to go through the turbulent period was periods of stillness and calmness! What can one do during short periods of quietness to experience interior stillness. There are three or four transitional experiences.
When we stay quiet thoughts crowd our minds. As we pay attention to them they seem to fade away. Then there is an in between period of interior stillness disturbed by thoughts, following which if we can converge on a word or phrase when other thoughts invade our consciousness, the in between periods of stillness would expand into longer periods of stillness. It is this experience which will draw us into solitary stillness where we are free of thoughts or wanderings of mind. This is the outcome of stillness-Rest!
When our mind is in a state of rest, it is a preparation for communion with God of our lives! Those who practice this way of experiencing communion with God would find the process becoming easier and effortless over a period of time!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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