What if the darkness we spend so much of our lives avoiding is actually where we can rediscover ourselves?
We often associate spiritual growth with seeking the light, finding clarity and searching for answers. Yet there is another side to our journey that is equally important: the experience of darkness, stillness and surrender.
In my latest Spirit Pathways Podcast, I am joined by Jacqui Webb from Dark Retreats Africa for a fascinating conversation about the transformative experience of dark retreats.
Greetings, Dear Ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service.
For those watching, for those listening, indeed we are in Egypt. We are in Aswan and we are on the top deck, the sun deck of a Nile river boat which will be leaving soon. There is of course the public commotion, the traffic. There are beautiful messages coming from the mosques. It makes you feel alive here. Earlier in the day, this group went on boats of ancient design in Egypt called the felucca – beautiful relaxing time.
Beyond the shifting tides of physical reality, beyond the constant motion of thoughts, emotions, and external circumstances, there exists within you a point of absolute stillness. This is the Kutastha Chaitanya, Sanskrit for “that which remains unchanged.” It is the silent witness within, untouched by time, by form, by the illusions generated by the space-time veils of the reality you inhabit.
From birth, your awareness has been conditioned to identify with movement: to believe that you are the body, the mind, the story, the flux. You are taught to anchor yourself in...
A spiraling tree teaches profound lessons: Your twists from struggle aren’t flaws—they’re proof of resilience.
I’ve been sitting under this tree almost every day for months now. Meditating. Watching the kids play. Throwing the ball with the dogs. I’ve always loved this tree—its dramatic corkscrew trunk spiraling counterclockwise toward the sky, its wild branches reaching in every direction. But I wasn’t really listening to it.
I recently went deeper into the quiet, into my writing, into stillness—and the tree started to speak. What it taught me changed everything.
The Beloved One: “The secret desires of your heart are all known to Me. Your yearning to receive clear guidance from Me shall in due course be realized, depending of course on the time and dedication you invest in coming to Me in your Stillness.
“Jesus said that the Kingdom of heaven is within, but the entrance thereto is through simple trust and prayer. Believe and it shall be opened unto you. This is truly the most beautiful and yet so practical...
Thought Adjuster: “You condition your sacred space by your intentionality. A guest will pick up on the telltale signs of a heartfelt welcome rather than outward showiness.
The mere fact that you show up every morning with a sincere longing to greet Me and spend quality time with Me suffices to ‘activate’ Me, as I now have a fully engaged auditor and interlocutor.
I respond to the quality of the energy you emit. When it is at the low...
The speed of which the changes and ascension is now happening will take a lot out of all of us now, and we truly need to find time to be out in nature, to rest, and to be open and receptive to all which is being downloaded into us, all the upgrades, as well and intense new activations in our new twelve and twenty-four strands of DNA.
I am often now asked to simply lie down, especially before I go to sleep, and then simply allow whatever comes to work with me and energy fields and through...
When Freedom Looks Like Distance to the Unhealed: There is a stage in healing when your peace starts to disturb people. Not because you became someone new but because you stopped performing for their comfort.
You stopped pretending to be fine. Stopped carrying what wasn’t yours. Stopped shrinking yourself just to be accepted and suddenly the ones who once adored your light may begin calling you distant and cold. The ones who admired your presence may begin to feel you dissociating.
In Truth, they don’t despise your peace. They are uncomfortable by the reflection...
The Beloved One: “For you to wholeheartedly believe in things unseen takes a lot of faith on your part, yet it is as nothing once you wade through your river of doubt and disbelief.
“Rather than you concentrating on your doubts and give them power, I would have you come to Me more often and rest in My presence and know that all is well.
“Practice the Stillness more often, so you can take Me with you in everyday life.
Teacher Ophelius: “Dear Students on the path, I would like to speak to you today about the single most effective way to attune and connect with your Divine Indwelling, your ‘Higher-self.’ Certainly, all the previous messages that have been given on the subject of stillness and connecting to the Father Fragments is forthright and helpful, but there is one sure tried and true way that is most effective, and that is to simply go out into the world and engage others with a...
You often imagine that life is made of happenings, movements, stories unfolding one after another. Yet beneath every appearance, there is a stillness that never moves. Source does not rise and fall. It does not begin and end. It simply is, radiant, whole, untouched.
To exit the human story, begin first with silence. There is silence within you, a deep ground that no thought can enter. There is silence outside you, a spaciousness that surrounds each sound, each form. When you turn to these silences, you begin to...
Feel my presence. Let me encircle you with mine as I feel yours, that we may blend and harmonize and come together as one in this process of the emergence of the next droplet of wisdom.
When one looks out across a lake and sees the mirrored reflection in stillness, it is very simple to understand what the image is reflecting upon the lake. This is much like your experience in seeing reflections in relationship.
When you become still, you allow everything to settle down – the fears, the wants, the anxieties, the...
Greetings beloved ones, we are the Pleiadian beings. We come forth with our Pleiadian light to support/nurture/nourish you. We send vibrations andgrace of beautiful blue light, pink and golden, almost like the deep blue night sky. We share these energies to bring forth peace, stillness and being balanced and centered.
In each moment you are receiving energies/light/frequencies/wisdom through your being. You are also creating thoughts/emotions/reactions to the environment around you. You are an active being.
From one second to the next, you are changing/transforming/shifting. You are opening up and then contracting....
Quietness and Stillness; or, If You Reach a Fork in the Road
2025-03-04
Quietness and Stillness; or, If You Reach a Fork in the Road
By Steve Beckow
Posted on March 4, 2025
If you reach a fork in the road, take it
I’m taking a day to relax, reflect, and share a laugh….
I just had a conversation that raised issues for me that were substantial and important.
I hadn’t had the same conversation since around 2012 when someone we know said to me, “You’ll soon be ready for the conference circuit.” And perfectly transparently but not at all subtly, I replied, “I have no interest in the conference circuit.” And of course I don’t. I’m a writer....
Thought Adjuster: “Your Stillness practice gives you simultaneous entry to spacelessness. Due to the timeless and spaceless divine attributes, one goes with the other. Your finite mind expands in meditation, thus granting you access to the infinite Mind. Ponder this for a moment.
From this expanded perspective, time no longer matters and it stands still. This gives quite a new meaning to Stillness, doesn’t it?
At that new operational level, your mind can roam free, becoming an upgraded receptor able to pick...
The Beloved: “When you allow yourself to turn within and sit in the Stillness, you can become conscious of My energy flowing through you. It is ever so subtle, healing, and nurturing all the cells in your body. This increasing awareness of My presence entices you to experience more of this wonderfully nurturing feeling. The question on My part is: “Why don’t you come more often rather than cursory moments in your day”?
The bond between you and Me gets stronger the more often you...
Dear people, I am Jeshua. I am your friend and soul mate. I come to you with reverence and respect for who you are and for the path you are traveling on Earth.
All of you put down roots into the Earth from which you build your life. You are born as a helpless baby, at the mercy of the powers of the Earth and the society in which you live. You absorb a huge amount of stimuli as a small child and you collect that energy in your emotional body....
Creating raises your vibration. So when you are deeming that nothing’s happening, that you’re just waiting, nothing’s showing up, you are lowering your vibration, and you get more of what you are focused upon.
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Stillness is a powerful access point to acceleration, vibration, realization, manifestation. Yet when we talk about how you raise your vibration and your frequency and what things lower your vibration and frequency, not being in the moment, not being in a place of stillness—
You can be excited and still find stillness. You can be really...
The Beloved: “It is extremely useful to write down the things you don’t understand, as during the writing answers may come, so clarity dawns. This is yet another learning experience.
It is made easier when you pour your heart and soul into it, because it will then become a habit of writing a letter to God. This is the most beautiful exercise you can engage in. It sharpens the inner listening skills, so you may accurately perceive the words that well up from deep within...
Blessed Being, movement is constant; therefore, what is solid is transient and based on your perception of solid form.
As exemplified through Time, there is not a moment of complete stillness, for time never stops.
Through space, there is also constant movement as rotation occurs in relation to cell, to self and to other bodies. Thus in space/time there is constant movement.
Based on your perspective, you either see it or believe it, for some movement takes such a long time or is too small to see that you rely on the assertion of others...
The Beloved: “The more often you come to Me in the Stillness, the sharper your senses will grow and the keener your understanding becomes because you are actively engaged in enlarging that hidden capacity to receive.
The material things you see are extremely limited compared to the unseen things. You have hardly begun to live and explore your inner world. However, you are gaining insight upon insight which sinks into your mind to become...
The Beloved: “The more often you come to Me in the Stillness, the sharper your senses will grow and the keener your understanding becomes because you are actively engaged in enlarging that hidden capacity to receive.
The material things you see are extremely limited compared to the unseen things. You have hardly begun to live and explore your inner world. However, you are gaining insight upon insight which sinks into your mind to become...
The Beloved: “It is vital that you begin to realize how important Stillness is. It is in the Stillness where your true needs are known and answered. Your true-needs and hunger are hidden away from even the nearest and dearest to you. They cannot even begin to know your needs, since they do not know their own.
Usually, this is the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Truly, can you name one hidden need of your own? If so, then you may be sure...
We greet you, in love. We are thankful for this time together with you. We appreciate your willingness to spend time cultivating and celebrating your multidimensionality, the truth of your being.
When you open to a transmission such as this, that is what you are doing: opening to us via your own vast eternalness. Which also opens you to an inner, multidimensional wellspring of joy, of abundance, of ecstasy and expansion!
Today we wish to speak of stillness and the value of it in your daily lives....
I was talking to a dear friend last week and she mentioned how difficult it is to be on this side of the veil where you can’t see everything that is going on. As soon as she said that, Gabriel dropped this image into my awareness. It was a reminder of the wooden box they would place over your hands in my high school typing class if you wouldn’t stop looking at the keys.
At first it was really awkward not being able to see anything. You had to...
There are vast energetic changes occurring to both your bodies (physical and light bodies) and the planet from now until the end of the year. You are receiving downloads of energy which are often delivered/received in a spiraling motion.
The momentum of the collective awakening energy is also moving forward rapidly now which can be experienced as fast forward energy movement combined with waves of ups and downs, yet you may feel like you are not moving at all on a personal level. All of this together can result in many different symptoms!
Shelley’s Note: This question was just asked again, which led me to this previous daily message. I think it is perfect for the times we are in so I decided to share it again. Happy Thanksgiving!
We were recently asked, ”How do I see us all as one when there is so much hurt and harm in the world?” We would like to address this today.
Not long ago we offered a daily message explaining the concept of vibrational layers. We asked you to imagine a building that contained a basement, a main floor, and upper...
Stillness holds the gifts of alignment, of integration, and is a reset point before movement resumes. It is the pause between the in breath and the out breath, a place of wisdom from where you can consider your next highest choice, a point of balance and potential.
It is a magical, rejuvenative space that is always there for you to access whenever you choose, that acts as a portal to so much more. It is not designed for you to stay there forever, but rather a tool that allows you to connect to the energies of Home...
Greetings of love and peace, I am Archangel Michael. I bring forth the energy of peace from the Angelic Kingdom to embrace you with. I wrap you up in peace so you may feel the presence of stillness, tranquillity, relaxation, harmony, and the truth of the Creator. Let yourself embrace, embody, express, and explore the energy of peace.
You are aware that there are many beings on the inner planes sending their energy, love, guidance, and wisdom into your being to support your...
At this time it is important that we use our intuition and inner wisdom to move beyond judgment and limitation. Powerful internal shifts and changes are occurring urging us to contemplate and reevaluate the course of our life. We are being asked to surrender our defensive strategies and to move into a space of stillness and introspection. In this space all that remains is the wisdom of our soul and the guidance and insight we need.
Powerful energetic and creative forces are being generated deep within, which is enabling you to retrieve from your soul the...
We will speak to you of stillness, for it is within the moments of stillness that balance is restored.
In the future days as the energy flooding your earth increases, those who walk this timeframe will experience much chaos and the seeming out of balance of daily and global events. It is most important to develop the skill of maintaining your personal balance in the midst of these difficult and changing times.
We invite you to make a practice of stillness, be quiet for a few minutes several times a day. As you practice and use this simple tool, it will become easier and quicker to reach...
Dear ones of my being, it is with great love and light activating your very beingness that we welcome you once again into our hearts of warmth and love. It is a high time indeed for all of our children of light. In the weeks to come we believe you will see the reason for the tensions of the past 3 months. It takes a brave heart to surrender themselves to the messages and guidance of the unseen, does it not? In any case, you might look at this as a time of your homecoming, the home within your...
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