The search is the obstacle to discovery. The intention to find, the obstacle to finding.
Searching puts us in motion, but knowing is available when we’re motionless. We know when we find the courage to be with the questions without the comfort of answers, to be in the not-knowing without the security of knowing. We know when we allow ourselves to not know.
When the here and there merge in the stillness of the present, we access a deeper, non-mind-surface level of knowing. It’s not a conceptual but experiential knowing, much more resonant, reverberating, visceral than intellectual knowledge. A knowing rather than knowledge—a felt state of deep assuredness and connectedness. It becomes accessible because we are, which we only are when we’re still.
Stillness is not comfortable. But action is counterproductive when it’s our default state. Action and non-action should take turns, as they do in nature, and within our bodies.
Make space for motion and motionless. For creation and rest. For doing and being. And watch what unfolds in the silence, stillness, and beingness. The answers unfold when we stop asking questions.