Meditate within your heart on your bed, and be still. – Psalm 4:4In a recent interview American novelist, Anita Shreve, was asked if she agreed with fellow author Jonathan Franzen, when he said: “You see more sitting still than chasing after.”
Shreve answered by saying: “…the word ‘still’ in that sentence is the most interesting to me because there is a place of deep stillness.”
Shreve says that finding stillness is an important part of her day. I think I understand what she is talking about.
It is like this: a group of sprinters are waiting for the starter to fire his pistol; they are silent and focused. The crowd is also silent. They are full of expectation. Time stands still.
Stillness is the moment before the starter fires his pistol.
Stillness is the moment before the Big-Bang creates the Universe.
Stillness is the space between the past and the future, and in stillness we find freedom from entanglement in both past and future. Stillness is the point from which an infinite number of possibilities could arise, but only one will.
Some storytellers pause in the moment of stillness. They reach into the pool of possibilities keeping their hand steady so as not to upset the surface. And from that pool they extract one single strand - a chain of events: a story.
Anyone who knows stillness can write their own story.
I Really like this thought. Gives me hope. :)
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