I recently received the gift of a wonderful book, Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle. As I explore this book, I keep coming back to its first two sentences, “When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” These two lines might be worth memorizing, methinks.
Those two opening lines remind me of a list I once came across. I reread this list when the world gets a little (or a lot) overwhelming. This list tends to bring a small smile to my being and allows a sense of stillness to return.
Blessings, Rev. MAM
Reverend Mary Ann Macklin
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Signs of Inner Peace
(Found in the Sisters of Providence Residence
at the Moye Spiritual Life Center, Melbourne, Kentucky)
An increasing ability to enjoy each moment
A tendency to act spontaneously rather than react with fear
A decreasing interest in judging others
A decreasing interest in judging oneself
An increasing preference to allow things to happen,
rather than make things happen
A lessening inclination to interpret the actions of others
A decreasing involvement in conflict
An increasing ability to give and receive love
Less motivation to worry
Frequent, overwhelming periods of gratitude
Feelings of contentment and one with humanity and nature
Frequent attacks of smiling
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