be still

"...relinquish, for a moment, your desire to explain and label..."
Eckhart Tolle

In other words be still, be quiet, listen more and give your opinion less. We live in a world of chatter. When something happens, it’s hard to be with the event because automatically comes in the defining the event, the replaying the event, the whys and the hows and the blah blah blah. We do this in our life and we see it everywhere we look. This is why we have accepted it.
In your life you have the “what is happening” and you have the “explanation of what is happening” I think we live in the explanation much more than the “what is.” If you could for a moment relinquish the explaining and the labeling what would that look like? What if you could live in this present moment, not in --what happened and not in --what is going to happen? Does it sound impossible? It’s not. It just means you have to give up the static in your life that you believe is real. All of the noise that you keep alive is a distraction. You are distracting yourself from being still. Can you be still? In this stillness is everything you are looking for. In this quiet is where I find my peace. I am so grateful for that, I am so grateful that no matter what, my peace is always right there in the moments that I let go and simply be still.