resting in the Lord. Sometimes people condemn that passivity and quietness, and call it by unregenerate names through not understanding it. Let us learn that persons may sit with folded hands, apparently having nothing to engage their action, and yet not be lazy, but be bringing forth a great and wonderful stillness which is back of all the moving of activity. It is the power behind the throne, what the mystic Eckart calls, “that immobility by which all things are moved,” and we must learn to cultivate that righteous stillness.

Certain active things may carry out the Tamas quality, such as a being busy doing nothing or foolishness; much talking that is only chatter; a dullness and conventionality that is simply a drifting along with the rest of the race. A number of our activities arise from the thought that we must ‘be doing something all of the time, because of this belief that if we are not doing something we are lazy. Yet in this we are wrong, for there is a virtue in not doing, which we must take hold upon for repose. If you find your fingers twitching, that you are chattering and talking too much--- about that time, relax and he still.

If we come under the accusation of laziness from ourselves or from others, let us enter into the repose of our spirit and realize that we are not lazy, that in truth, we are not lacking in energy. Our sweet stillness is more powerful and a greater cause of manifestation, than much of the activity round about us that has no principle in it.