Your Stillness Is Not Laziness

The world is moving fast right now, and you are standing still. That stillness feels dangerous.

It feels like laziness wearing a mask of wisdom. You wonder if you are hiding from the work because you are afraid, or if you are actually resting in the light.

But the light does not confuse rest with waste. There was a woman who sat at the feet of the teacher while her sister scrambled to serve, worried about many things.

The teacher said she had chosen the one thing needed. The stillness was not laziness.

It was the only work that mattered. Your pause is not a failure to perform.

It is the place where the light is most visible. You are not hiding.

You are being filled. The mask of busy-ness is slipping, and what remains is not idle, but alive.