‘Everything is part of a manifestation of spirit.’ Photo: Josh Marshall on Unsplash.
‘Opening to stillness and stepping back from our thinking mind is not necessarily comfortable.’
Still thinking: Gabrielle Scott on how stillness alters our perception of the world – and ourselves
by Gabrielle Scott
6th November 2020
Do you sometimes find yourself pondering a blank page, enjoying its emptiness? Emptiness that is full of potential, the promise of creation. It’s a bit like the silent stillness that we find in Quaker meetings, meditation or quiet moments in nature – where we ‘step back’ from the noise of the world and our thoughts into a place of quiet awareness. It’s not an absence that we find when we do this.
