▪︎When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

▪︎Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

▪︎Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.

▪︎You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

▪︎The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

▪︎Whenever there is some silence around you — listen to it. That means just notice it. Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence.

~ Eckhart Tolle