“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
Sometimes a few words are enough to shift the way we see the day.
This one stopped me. I mean, how often do we try to match the chaos around us, speeding up when life speeds up, stressing when things go sideways? But a truly quiet mind doesn’t race to keep up. It just keeps time, steadily, silently, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
The storms don’t shake the mechanism.
The thunder doesn’t stop the ticking.
And maybe we don’t have to stop either.
I’ve been thinking about what it means to be that kind of steady. Not numb. Not checked out. Just centered enough to move through things—good or bad—without getting tossed around. That’s the kind of quiet I want more of. Not silence… but stillness.
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