On the surface, you may feel grief, distress, and turmoil. Your mind may be consumed by noisy, anxious thoughts and loud, fearful emotions. And you may be lost in the chaos and confusion of the world.
But in the depths of your being, there is a dimension far vaster than all your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. In this deeper realm, there is stillness, contentment, serenity, and a peace that passes all understanding.
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with who you are. You are not your thoughts, feelings, or emotions. You are the consciousness, the spacious awareness, in which all your thoughts, feelings, and emotions rise and fall, appearing for a time and then disappearing forever.
This deep, spacious awareness is also inner peace, inner stillness. It’s an intrinsic aspect of your essential being, an elemental part of your true identity. It’s the peace that transcends any fear, the stillness that is deeper and more profound than any noise.
When you rediscover inner stillness, you return to who you are here and now. To be still is to be at home in this moment, at home in your being, at home in the universe. To be still is to be yourself.
You are not the noise. You are the stillness.
