Take time to do nothing

Author - Chithra Viswanathan

When was the last time you did nothing?

• By nothing, we mean absolutely nothing — 
  •      no scrolling social media, 
  •      no reading books or articles, 
  •      no listening to podcasts, 
• and no watching movies, TV, or YouTube videos.
• Knowing when to engage one’s mind  is just as important as knowing when to disengage.
• Take time to gather your thoughts
• Take time to feel the sun
• Take time to listen to the rustling of leaves
• Take time to gaze at sky.
•  Too many events fill our  days , crowd our  lives  that
• Often at the end of the day, we can not  recollect all that we did.
•  It takes a long time to learn to do nothing!
• Pause to reflect. 
• Pause to feel progress. 
• Pause to create. 
• Pause to think. 
• Pause to take control. 
• By all means pause.
• If you pause and  take time to put expectations and schedules aside,
• You can recollect clearly all that you did.
•  It is in the empty spaces that life takes place;
• Not in planning, but in repose, call it inactivity or tranquility.
•  We need to be present for what is not there
• As much as for what is.
•  We always measure by the things,we see.
• Watch the expanse of sky
• Watch the breadth of horizon
• Your thoughts expand.
•  We realise that we are a micro dust in the macro universe.
•  Be more on the edge, where
• Looking out and looking in meet.
• All truth gathers there and defines your being!
• I experience everything.
• I hold onto nothing.
• I become the world.
• That is bliss!