Connecting to and Cultivating the Source Within
- Connecting to the depths of your Being
- This dimension focuses on cultivating stillness by using internal, contemplative exercises to quiet the mind.
- As you learn to quiet mind, then the next step is to use this stillness as a leverage point to find peace, source, truth and silence within and being able to stay connected to this during your daily life.
- The point of leverage that helps you making lasting changes in your life is the ability to pause in time and connect with a deeper, calmer place inside that remembers your desire to be different.
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement is outside the veil;
inside the veil is silence and calm and peace.
—Bayezid Bistami
A sample of some key things to be focused on throughout the day in working with this dimension:
Stillness, silence, emptiness – both where they can be found within and found in the world outside.
- More specifically in the body: Settling into the ground beneath your feet and being aware of the solidity of it and the seamless continuum of the earth upon which you stand as one unfragmented piece. Sensing the body also as one undifferentiated whole both internally and in its external shape and form as well.
- More specifically in the external world: Taking in the pure presence of external objects. You can use what is sensed of those things – stillness, silence, and emptiness – in the external world to help reflex you back on your own being and those same qualities in yourself that you are seeing and finding in the external world.
Attempt to observe, feel, sense – be as mindful and aware of these things as possible. No matter how small the efforts and successes may seem, there is a power that derives from the cumulative effect of making even small consistent efforts to establish a solid foothold in the realm of being, by staying with this through the day and bringing yourself back when it slips away.
Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? Freedom, or power over an entire nation? A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.
—Rumi
