Jonathan Spencer's Tales of Ordinary Wisdom

Where ever you are, who ever you are, whatever your journey, whatever you are seeking, what ever you have found, who ever you are with….STOP

What you need is right here, right now.

Stop looking, stop searching, stop wanting to discover the secret, the hidden meaning, stop praying, stop mediitating, stop knocking…the door is already open.

If there is on great thing I have learnt from The Quakers, it is to be still, to stop trying, to stop doing and begin in the quiet and the silence to start being.

William Penn said:

“True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

The other reason to stop is what Umberto Eco was writing about in Foucault’s Pendulum, that we spend our lives searching for the key to the mysteries, the secret formula, the philosophers stone, the Da Vinci Code, The Holy Grail…when it is right there in front of us and we pass it by. The key is not a secret, the kingdom of heaven is within you.

Oh no not that religious stuff I hear you cry, no not if you don’t want it, just stop, stop criticising, stop fighting stop working just to get, get get get have have have. In all of this there is one thing you do not really look at, do not really see and that is your true self.

William Penn again:
“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.”

and finally:

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

This invitation to stop is also an invitation to BE in the centre of who where and what you are, so you can truly say.. I am

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