“We can relax and relate to life with faithful knowing that if we cease to act, life itself will not cease. It may in fact grow full.” This phrase has the power to strike fear in the hearts of many for we have become so afraid of entering the place stillness and

non-doing, that the very prospect of it triggers an unhealthy avoidance to this very place within us.

There are cycles we are ignoring. There is a spirit world we are forgetting the language of. All life needs rest and incubation. All life needs time bellow the surface, where it can breathe itself full and round, where it can reconnect with its nature and sprout again in its flushed form. Just as you can not force flowers to continually bloom, the same is true for all human beings. There is great value in letting go and dropping down. We must learn to remember, from time to time to be like the tree in the winter.