Succumb to the Spirit and Let Go

Succumb to your inner spirit - let go -

Intrinsic matters no longer important (maybe they never were)

Lean in longingly to the vast chasm of noiselessness,

Experience solitude, but connection to all,

Nothing frivolous to fret about while stillness exists,

Challenge yourself, each time, to stay here longer & longer,

Exterminate the need to control everyone & everything, just allow your mind to quieten, your head & jaw to soften; can you hear the nothingness?

Quick Note: I’ve recently, again, been inspired by Eckhart Tolle’s teachings. A friend gifted me a copious assortment of his CDs this year, which they no longer required. I have been listening to these in the car. I can’t remember the exact quotation so I am paraphrasing, yet one of the ‘gateways into the now’ is through the intense observation of silence. A technique was to ‘Listen to the silence between the sounds and the silence underneath the sounds’ - in order to achieve this calm state. I only wish I could get to this ‘stillness’ more easily and frequently; it’s a challenge, but I guess practise makes it easier. So that is a little of what I was trying to show within the acrostic.

Just found this short video. He’s much younger here, but the general gist if you might not have listened to him before.

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