Everything is a spark of that eternal radiance.
Why flee from the world in order to find it
when you yourself are already on fire?
~ from MY SECRET IS SILENCE by Adyashanti
Inwardness and true quietness appear to be but two aspects of the same thing -- of a "truly centered" life. In the innermost religion of life there is a perpetual calm; perturbations and excitements belong to the comparatively superficial part of our own nature. In cleaving to the Center we cannot but be still; to be inwardly still is to be aware of the Center.