The Stillness Within

I sit down to meditate. I watch my attention skip like a stone flung across the turbulent waters of my mind. Sometimes, that is an entertaining show, and sometimes it is not. But, if I am patient enough to keep watching that stone of attention as it hops and jumps around, it settles down and sinks beneath the chaos on the surface of my mind and into the depths of stillness and peace that lies within each one of us.