when your mind is still
your peaceful heart will embrace
the beauty of peace

Unlearn the lie that we must rush for a harvest. Spring will come. Flowers will bear fruit. Summer will give us all that we need. And then the beauty of Fall will prepare us for the quiet stillness of Winter. All flowers, seeds and leaves will fall and enrich the soil for next year’s fruit. The process is beautiful and complete. Rushing will do nothing but cause anxious trouble, trampling the soil – making it more difficult for the vine to grow strong.

“Allow your mind to be still and your heart will embrace the beauty of peace. Watch the natural growth and movement of the world and observe the natural way they return to the source.

Plants in a garden grow and produce their flowers and fruit, and then they quietly and humbly return to the soil — to enrich it for the next growing season.

Returning to this root is a constant state of stillness. Knowing the constant is to be enlightened. Not knowing the constant is the source of foul action — to believe yourself greater than the natural way.

By understanding the constant, we can accept things as they are and as they come. We become unbiased and open-minded.

By being unbiased, we are in community with all of creation.

In this community, there is no concern about losing our life.

We understand that The Way is constant, and we are one with The Way.” TTC, Chapter 16