{"id":6103,"date":"2018-12-20T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=6103"},"modified":"2018-12-14T19:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T00:39:48","slug":"perfect-pitch-stillness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2018\/12\/perfect-pitch-stillness.html","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Pitch of Stillness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden touch of hearing, reading, or seeing something True doesn&#8217;t so much move us up and into the perfect pitch of Stillness, as does this inner quickening \u2013 the ineffable feeling of Forever \u2013 sound out, all at once, the music of the spheres within us. And as these celestial notes, silent the moment before, sing out, we join in the Song of Life.<\/p>\n<p>This Divine stillness consumes itself in much the same way, as is a flame the final expression of all that is being consumed by it; where nothing is left behind to miss itself. Only this flame \u2013 ever arising out of an unknowable Perfection \u2013 can never be extinguished because it draws its Life from an inexhaustible Stillness with no beginning or end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?attachment_id=6104\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6104\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6104\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/92\/2018\/12\/48206601_10161165508825634_7736616850477285376_n-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"candle on pine boughs\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden touch of hearing, reading, or seeing something True doesn&#8217;t so much move us up and into the perfect pitch of Stillness, as does this inner quickening \u2013 the ineffable feeling of Forever \u2013 sound out, all at once, the music of the spheres within us. 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