Meditation in Motion
or allowing yourself to be found through creative practice (archival post from 2022)
Dear Friend,
When I get woken up in the middle of the night, I sometimes think about how we are hurtling through space on a rock at 67,000 miles per hour. All praises be to gravity.
It is an illusion that the world is still and we are the ones who move. The sun does not rise over the horizon - it is our planet turning towards the sun.
Everything is in motion, all the time. Even when you sit to meditate, you cannot stop your cells from making new copies of themselves. What I’m saying is, in order for this word to have any meaning at all: stillness is relative.
You do not have to sit in meditation for two hours a day to reach enlightenment. If there were a known dose of stillness that led to peace, we would all take that amount of time to sit. And not a minute more.
The way forward is not through knowing. You cannot use your intellect to arrive.
The way forward is not through perfect stillness. Works alone cannot save you.
What matters is whether you sit at all. Or write. Or paint. Or sing. Whether you make time for the practices that feed your soul.
It is not about finding your place in the universe — but allowing the universe to find you. If you make time for stillness, you will arrive and depart. Again and again. As steady as the earth, turning once more into the light.
xo,
Laura