Comments on: Wisdom is wisdom

By: Mercola

Mercola — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:33:51 +0000

Taking a brisk walk, or slow jog always does it for me.

By: Tess

Tess — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:22:33 +0000

Greg and Molly, thank you for your comments, and welcome to my blog, Greg.

By: molly

molly — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:04:18 +0000

I’m blogging to avoid stillness. Lovely post.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:36:57 +0000

Creativity and wisdom are the base for everything you want to accomplish. The creativity uses imagination to create new things. I personally believe that if you can rest in a meditation thinking you resolve the majority of problems. Because when you meditate your brain detaches from the day to day life and you can see the things more clearly. These techniques are also covered in Yoga.

By: kigen

kigen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:04:47 +0000

Tess, I agree, To allow not to grab, is blessedly the secret.
Thank you for the probe on sacred origin?
- kigen

By: Tess

Tess — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:07:47 +0000

Thank you all for sharing with me your distractions. Encouraging how almost everyone refers to the blessedness of those occasional moments. I guess the secret is not to grab, but to allow.
@Kigen: surely the creative interpretation of the great artists is sacred in origin.
@Sib: picturing the lovely walk you describe, I was there a couple of weeks back. And no, postcards definitely don’t count!
@Lucy: you make a good distinction between “mindless” and “engaging”. And sadly yes even Buffy can sometimes be a distraction. Bless her.

By: lucy

lucy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:17:52 +0000

oh that stillness thing…sometimes i get more still (take a nap…i had a great one today, but really needed it)…working my way through “buffy” (although i wonder if you would consider that a distraction?) facebook or mindless blogging (as opposed to engaging)…

all of this makes me think of what my yoga teacher encourages…sometimes we need to disengage from everything including stillness (& yoga). for me, it’s having the discernment to know when i am taking care of myself and when i am avoiding myself or stillness or…

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:22:18 +0000

The television. The stupid dumb television to avoid stillness, even though there’s nothing on!!

(It doesn’t matter what you use. It matters that you tell yourself that you’re being distracted

I got still the other day. Twice in one day, morning and night. It was delightful

By: Sib

Sib — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:18:06 +0000

Endless ‘To Do’ lists, activity, procrastination which makes me feel pressured, buying books I haven’t got time to read, running my life like a military manoeuvre, not wanting to ‘waste time’ … being so very productive.

Yet this evening my craving for stillness won. Instead of joining colleagues for drinks and dinner I went out by myself, for a walk along the Thames, down to the Southbank and the wonderful Foyles bookshop where I pondered by didn’t buy (well, a couple of postcards don’t really count?), had a simple dinner by myself, then back along the river, admiring the views across to the Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. Very conscious of, and grateful for, the stillness within.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:33:47 +0000

I am one of those hoping for “time off”, assuming I need to schedule stillness. Could I be using this as an excuse not to use a precious 5 or 10 minute “retreat” to look within and do some necessary work?

I never, ever consider coming here a distraction. Like the title of your post “wisdom is wisdom” & I find it on your blog.