Have you discovered the grandeur of stillness? In this world of discordant sounds, how refreshing is a period of stillness. I often think that the test of a long and satisfying friendship is not so much the ability to carry on a satisfying conversation, as it is the feeling of comfort you have with another during a period of stillness.

The Bible instruction is to: "Be still and know that I am God." First, the instruction is that you must be still if (second) you are to know and feel the divine Power within you.

The novelist Herman Hesse says it so well when he puts these words into the mouth of one of his characters: "We talk too much. Clever talk is absolutely worthless. All you do in the process is lose yourself."

Why not resolve to find some time today to be still--so still that in this stillness you will find your true and genuine Self; thereby, you will be enabled to be of loving and selfless service to others.