Sight a bird and watch that bird for a while if it stays in your sights!
In watching and following the body language of this bird, I got sense the way a bird is present to itself and the environment. The early morning time for most birds is a time to attend to its body care before they are ready to search for their food. However, as I watched this bird while engaged in its feather care, I noticed its attentiveness to noises and sights around.
It chooses how to respond to what is around.
The 'stillness' is also a response.
I am fascinated by this stillness and the quietness that proceeds from this.
The stillness is in its body realm and the quietness is in its inner composure. Both are inherently connected to each other.
There is so much we hear about ourselves, others and events. Each of these can make us feel nervous or unsettled or joyful and fulfilled. It is because we are sensing multi-sensorially all that that happen within us and around us, we need to still our body to move to the inner realm to receive the quietness that springs because of stillness.
It is the process prelude to meditation!
It is when we are able to return to our interior free of all thoughts, the consciousness of God who is present within us brings a larger awareness. It is this habitual practice which makes us live soberly, effectively and altruistically!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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