I am my Silence

I tend to read depending on what my mood is. This means I usually have four books on the go at any given time. 

Yesterday, as I was looking for something to centre me I picked up Richard Wagamese's Embers. The book is a collection of his meditations that he has written during the early morning hours of his daily practice of connecting with himself, the world and his culture. 

The first section is entitled Stillness. It begins: "I am my silence. I am not the busyness of my thoughts or the daily rhythm of my actions." 

In a world that moves so quickly it was nice to be reminded of how connected we can be to our silence when stop to create it. When we stop defining ourselves only by the movements we make moving forward. That we can truly find ourselves by just being in our bodies, connecting to our breath and the world around us.