Pause.

Settle in the here and now.
Reach down into the center
where the world is not spinning
and drink this holy peace.
Feel relief flood into every
cell. Nothing to do. Nothing
to be but what you are already
Nothing to receive but what
flows effortlessly from the
mystery into form
Nothing to run from or run
toward. Just this breath,
Awareness knowing itself as
embodiment. Just this breath,
awareness waking up to truth.

Danna Faulds

 

Enter into the great, resounding Silence,
be still and know the true peace.

Nan Merrill. Psalms for Praying. From “Psalm 119.”