Stillness is the space in which you add nothing but find everything.
From What Consciousness Wants, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Rain all morning, so I sat under the eave of the garage and did not hunt, did not sing, did not move except to shake my back once. For years I took a day like that as a loss, a page with nothing written on it. But by noon I had counted four kinds of drip off that roof and watched a beetle cross the whole length of the gutter, and I knew the gray cat was out because the sparrows went quiet in the hedge before I saw her. Stillness is the space in which you add nothing but find everything, and the finding was not mine, it was already there under the noise of my own going. Switch came by at two and asked what I was doing. I said nothing, and meant it as an answer, not an excuse, though I am not sure he heard the difference.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- When you see the light of the sun in the light of the moon, you have found the love that fills the universe.
- Some things cannot be sought but can be found.
- We would all have more peace if we would all be more quiet.
- The light from every star shines on every path.
- If you fall in love with yourself, you can't leave when it all goes bad.
- A humble person has less to worry about because he has less to live up to.