Stillness

What is this Stillness you speak of? Is it that captured moment of being midair before splashing down into a puddle? Or is it that smile which spreads across your face when you connect deeply with another?

Stillness is the quiet mind. Here there are no distractions of past pain or control of future desires. Stillness is a mind not tugged back and forth but rather rests right here in the present. Feelings merge with your quiet essence and you experience for the first time no inner conflicts. You are finally One. You are free.

The puddle splashes.
A hug is shared.