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Today I want to invite you to be still . . Thomas Merton says “So perhaps I have an obligation to preserve the stillness, the silence, the poverty, the virginal point of pure nothingness which is at the Center of all other loves.” . . It’s a pretty strong statement but you just might find that the more you practice silence and stillness the more you will be drawn to it. . . I don’t know about you, but in spite of my best efforts my mind and my body are anything but still most of the time. My mind especially, is almost always racing. . . At the same time, as Merton says stillness, silence, poverty, and the virginal point of nothingness already exist in some mysterious way. On some level we know it and stillness helps to get all of the unknowing out of the way, so that we can truly know as the Psalmist says in Psalm 46.10. . . If you’re ready to practice stillness using this Psalm, I invite you to do it now. If this moves too fast for you, take some time later on and slow it down. . . Let’s do a very quick body