Tag: Stillness

Iclearly remember, when I was a teenager, that among my peers there was an unwritten rule that loomed over our heads like a curse. You needed to have the answer ready to be worth listening to. As soon as the conversation started, I had to immediately express my opinion before someone else took...

I am a city girl, born and raised uptown in Manhattan (Harlem). When you grow up in an urban environment, here are some of the sounds in the city you may hear: Wake up to roars of the ambulance whizzing by your window The loud sirens and flashing lights of a police cruiser The exhaust re...

We live in a busy, noisy world. There is a constant push to go, to do, to do more. Our minds even have a constant stream of chatter. Michael Singer refers to it as the roommate in our minds. If I allow the external and internal noise to rule the roost, I soon find myself feeling very unsettled. I...