— Daniel Christopher Sainsbury

It takes great courage to turn one eye inwards
To see all that which you’ve been avoiding to see;
But it is when we do finally look at all the uglies within,
that they are at once given up
and made beautiful, dissolved,
transmuted in the Light of what you are.
— Daniel Christopher Sainsbury

Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.
—
Adyashanti