With soft steps

Dear friend,

When you take the time to sit in silence, even if it is only ten minutes a day, know that this is a practice that extends beyond yourself. However small and insignificant this gesture may seem, ultimately you never sit just for yourself but always (implicitly) for the whole world. When you step out of that silence into the world, you will inevitably be able to do so with more compassion, more kindness and more acceptance than before. So those few minutes a day that offer the opportunity to sit in silence, whether it is on the train, at the dining table, at the bus stop or on your meditation cushion, are actually very big "steps". These are not grandiose steps of pride or hurried sprints driven by progress, no, small, gentle steps in which you as a human being take your responsibility to return to the intimacy of your own inner landscape and from there, from that silent encounter, to take the step into the outside world. And then, suddenly, that brief moment of silence, when you simply followed your breathing for a few seconds, that instantaneous moment of softening, suddenly turns out to be a very big step forward.

“When you take the time to sit in silence, even if it is only ten minutes a day, know that this is a practice that extends beyond yourself”

May your week be full of wonder, sven