And now I am holding that stillness to give it back to you, because the truth is so much of the world is broken, and I want to be part of its healing.

*Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

Healing is usually associated with action. Yet, here we are, and where has this prejudice toward action led us? Healing, personal and collective, can most likely arise from persons who have cultivated stillness within. This aligns with the time-honored truth that the best movement arises first out of non-movement, then, as the stillness matures, in union with non-movement. There is a still Center to all life, and action in accord with and inspired by that Center - we could say revolving around that life-giving Center - is healing. So, in healing, not-doing is more vital than doing, and doing needs to evolve out of not-doing, not the other way. In daily cultivating inner stillness, you are sharing in the healing of our world, by embodying the quiet stillness. Stillness becomes your gift to others in a harried, hurried world. This is a gift of the spiritual contemplative, but he or she witnesses to the naturalness of a wisdom for all persons, for everyone's good, for Earth, for peace. Wholeness arises from the Center, and nowhere else. Even the insight and creativity to heal medically arises from Grace, even as we all arise from the same Center to serve the good of all here. I have fallen in Love with Stillness, I give my life that others may taste the sweetness of this calm Quietness.