<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stillness: a Poem for the International Day of Stillness, November 28</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Stillness is my beloved teacher.<br>From her, I learn new things every day.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said to Stillness, <br>how can you teach me so well? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stillness said, <br>By being with you always.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said to Stillness, <br>How can you teach me so much? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stillness said, <br>Because you have much within you; <br>I, but a mirror for your mind; <br>I, but a mirror for your heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said to Stillness, <br>O my beloved teacher, will you<br>promise me you will never leave me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stillness said, <br>I cannot leave you; <br>though you can leave me..<br>but what is stillness without a companion? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said to Stillness, <br>Is your work hard? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stillness said, <br>I have the most wonderful task that I could wish for: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit with babies while they smile; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit with children in the classroom<br>as they delight to learn; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit with the angry and disturbed, <br>And watch them grow to peace; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit with the sad and lonely and bereaved<br>and watch them rediscover happiness and joy; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit with kings and queens and rulers<br>while they find wisdom and mercy; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit with governments and committees<br>while they find reason and justice; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit with artists and scientists, <br>and watch them find new things outside themselves, <br>and find new things within themselves; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit with those who pray or meditate, <br>and watch them find God in themselves; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit at the feet of saints<br>while they become perfection; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I fly with birds, in the silence of the air; <br>I watch the animals as they explore the earth; <br>I hear the growing of the trees and plants; <br>I listen to the opening of the flowers; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I walk in the gardens of the dawn; <br>I walk in the gardens of the dusk; <br>in the deep of the night, I watch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Stillness, <br>I am the friend and the companion of all; <br>who would not love to share my life with me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said to Stillness, <br>may I never leave you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Stillness looked me in the eye, <br>and Stillness smiled at me: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I am born with every creature born<br>to be their friend for life.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">*<br>(With acknowledgements to Iain Trousdell of New Zealand, whose poem quoted from in the first two lines inspired this extension..)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459797" data-title="Stillness: a Poem for the International Day of Stillness, November 28 de Michael Shepherd" data-description="'Stillness is my beloved teacher. From her, I learn new things every day.' I said to Stillness, how can you teach me so well? Stillness said, By being with you always. I said to Stillness, How can you teach me so much? Stillness said, Be..."></div> </div> </div>

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