Spiritual Attunement through Meditation
Aug 7, 2026 · 23 min · 8 segments
Spiritual Attunement Through Meditation. Episode #136: Stillness in Movement. Today I’ll be sharing information from the spiritual classic, Meditation Now or Never, published in 2007 by Steve Hagan…
Today I'll be sharing information from the spiritual classic Meditation, Now or Never, published in 2007 by Steve Hagen.
The book begins with two quotes.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this.
Man's being unable to sit still in a room.
And then from Jiddu Krishnamurti, To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
But if I think I am going to achieve stillness at some future date, I have destroyed the possibility of stillness.
It is now or never.
And then from chapter 17, stillness in movement.
We are told that the essence of meditation is stillness in the midst of activity.
Activity is essential to life.
Nothing in this world stays still, even for a moment, not our thoughts, not our feelings, not our bodies.
The physical world, both macroscopically and microscopically, is nothing but activity.
So is our mental world, much of the time.
In meditation, we discover very quickly just how busy our minds usually are.
But also in meditation, we have the opportunity to taste the stillness that is always here, in the midst of unending movement and change.
This stillness in movement may seem like a contradiction, but it is actually quite common.
For example, consider a hurricane.
It has a still place at its center, around which turmoil circles.
Yet even the eye of a hurricane doesn't stay put.
In a hurricane, stillness and movement are thus inseparable.
Or consider a wheel turning around a hub.
No matter how fast the wheel turns, the hub at its center remains still.
In meditation, we touch this stillness.
We realize the very center of the turning wheel, the still point at the center of the world.
Today I'll be sharing information from the spiritual classic Meditation, Now or Never, published in 2007 by Steve Hagen.
The book begins with two quotes.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this.
Man's being unable to sit still in a room.
And then from Jiddu Krishnamurti, To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
But if I think I am going to achieve stillness at some future date, I have destroyed the possibility of stillness.
It is now or never.
And then from chapter 17, stillness in movement.
We are told that the essence of meditation is stillness in the midst of activity.
Activity is essential to life.
Nothing in this world stays still, even for a moment, not our thoughts, not our feelings, not our bodies.
The physical world, both macroscopically and microscopically, is nothing but activity.
So is our mental world, much of the time.
In meditation, we discover very quickly just how busy our minds usually are.
But also in meditation, we have the opportunity to taste the stillness that is always here, in the midst of unending movement and change.
This stillness in movement may seem like a contradiction, but it is actually quite common.
For example, consider a hurricane.
It has a still place at its center, around which turmoil circles.
Yet even the eye of a hurricane doesn't stay put.
In a hurricane, stillness and movement are thus inseparable.
Or consider a wheel turning around a hub.
No matter how fast the wheel turns, the hub at its center remains still.
In meditation, we touch this stillness.
We realize the very center of the turning wheel, the still point at the center of the world.
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