Cultivate more internal stillness. Spend some time each day sensing the space between thoughts and the space between the end of an exhalation and the very beginning of the next inhalation, and let these spaces widen, expand, open into stillness. Bring your busyness, your inner turmoil and fuss, into such stillness, bit by bit, without any pressure to alter them. Real stillness doesn’t require a cessation of movement or thought but rather a relocation of attention to the presence of Being, the feeling of Being. You don’t have to be motionless to be present. In fact, you don’t have to be
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